Academic officers and staff
Find academics by their role within the School, or by subject area.
Many of us work on a hybrid basis - a mixture of on-campus and digitally.
Our working hours are Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm (UK time).
Please email us in the first instance, and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.
As of the start of August 2024, the following details are correct for Semester 1 of Academic Year 2024 to 2025, but are subject to change.
| Title | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Head of Asian Studies | Dr Daniel Hammond | Daniel.Hammond@ed.ac.uk |
| Head of Celtic and Scottish Studies | Dr Neill Martin | neill.martin@ed.ac.uk |
| Head of the Department of European Languages and Cultures | G.Puzey@ed.ac.uk | |
| Head of English Literature | S.Trill@ed.ac.uk | |
| Head of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies | Ines.Asceric-Todd@ed.ac.uk |
| Title | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Director of Learning and Teaching (Undergraduate and Postgraduate) | Dr Ben Bateman | benjamin.bateman@ed.ac.uk |
| Postgraduate Research Director | Dr Frauke Matthes | Frauke.Matthes@ed.ac.uk |
| Director of Students | Dr Véronique Desnain | Veronique.Desnain@ed.ac.uk |
| Director of Research (until October 2024) | Professor Greg Walker | |
| Deputy Director of Research and Director of Impact and Knowledge Exchange | Dr Hephzibah Israel | H.Israel@ed.ac.uk |
| Academic Misconduct Officer | Tbc | |
| Ethics Officer | Tbc | llc.ethicsofficer@ed.ac.uk |
| Director of People & Equalities | Dr Mavis Ho | mavis.ho@ed.ac.uk |
| Deputy Director of Learning and Teaching (Quality Assurance and Enhancement) | Dr Hannah Simpson | h.e.a.simpson@ed.ac.uk |
| Academic Promotions Officer | Professor Federica Pedriali | F.Pedriali@ed.ac.uk |
| Outreach and Widening Participation Officers |
Patricia Rueda Díez |
Patricia.Rueda@ed.ac.uk |
| Dr Sergi Mainer | Sergi.Mainer@ed.ac.uk | |
| Senior Disability Coordinator | Dr Neill Martin | neill.martin@ed.ac.uk |
| Library Committee Representative | Dr Christopher Rosenmeier | christopher.rosenmeier@ed.ac.uk |
| Title | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Asian Studies DPGRD | Professor Natascha Gentz | Natascha.Gentz@ed.ac.uk |
| Celtic & Scottish Studies DPGRD | Dr Anja Gunderloch | A.Gunderloch@ed.ac.uk |
| European Languages & Cultures DPGRD |
Dr Jessica Gordon-Burroughs |
j.gordonburroughs@ed.ac.uk |
| Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies DPGRD | Dr Ebtihal Mahadeen | imespgr@ed.ac.uk |
| English Literature DPGRD | Dr Aaron Kelly | Aaron.Kelly@ed.ac.uk |
| Creative Writing | creative.writing@ed.ac.uk | |
| Film Studies - point of contact for Postgraduate Research | Dr David Sorfa | David.Sorfa@ed.ac.uk |
| Translation Studies | tsphdenquiries@ed.ac.uk |
| Title | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| MSc Comparative Literature |
Dr Frauke Matthes |
Frauke.Matthes@ed.ac.uk |
| MSc Creative Writing | Dr Patrick Errington | Creative.Writing@ed.ac.uk |
| MSc East Asian Relations | Dr Holly Stephens | holly.stephens@ed.ac.uk |
| MSc Film, Exhibition & Curation | Susan Kemp (Co-Director) | S.A.Kemp@ed.ac.uk |
| Jane Sillars (Co-Director) | Jane.Sillars@ed.ac.uk | |
| MSc Film Studies | Dr Ana Salzberg | Ana.Salzberg@ed.ac.uk |
| MSc Globalised Muslim World | Professor Frédéric Volpi (Co-Director) | Frederic.Volpi@ed.ac.uk |
| Dr Kholoud Al Ajarma (Co-Director) | Kholoud.Alajarma@ed.ac.uk | |
| MSc Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies | Dr Andreas Görke (Semester 1) | A.Goerke@ed.ac.uk |
| Dr Marie Legendre (Semester 2) | marie.legendre@ed.ac.uk | |
| MSc Literature & Modernity | Dr Peter Adkins | peter.adkins@ed.ac.uk |
| MSc Literature & Society | Dr Owen Holland | Owen.Holland@ed.ac.uk |
| MSc Playwriting | Nicola McCartney | Nicola.Mccartney@ed.ac.uk |
| MSc Translation Studies | Professor Charlotte Bosseaux | Charlotte.Bosseaux@ed.ac.uk |
Browse staff by subject area
Asian Studies - includes Chinese, Japanese, Korean and East Asian
Celtic and Scottish Studies - includes Celtic, Scottish Ethnology and Scottish Studies
English and Scottish Literature - includes Playwriting and Creative Writing
European Languages and Cultures - includes Comparative Literature, European Theatre and Medieval Studies
Film and Intermediality- includes Film Studies, Film, Exhibition and Curation, and Intermediality
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies - includes Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern Studies