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.
The following details are correct for Semester 1 of Academic Year 2023 to 2024:
| 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 |
| Centre | Name | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alwaleed Centre General Manager | Tom Lea | +44 (0)131 650 6686 | tom.lea@ed.ac.uk |
| Alwaleed Outreach and Projects Coordinator | Nadin Akta | +44 (0)131 650 4165 | nadin.akta@ed.ac.uk |
| Confucius Institute General Manager | Wendy (Siwei Liu) Green | +44 (0)131 662 2184 | wendy.green@ed.ac.uk |
| Confucius Institute Partnership Manager | Jie Chen | +44 (0)131 662 2182 | jie.chen@ed.ac.uk |
| Confucius Institute Operations and Marketing Officer | Xin Zhang | +44 (0)131 662 2180 | |
| Confucius Institute Assistant Administrator | Calum Gibb | +44 (0)131 662 2180 | |
| Dashkova Centre |
|
dashkova.centre@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 |
| Senior Tutor | Dr Iona Macintyre | Iona.Macintyre@ed.ac.uk |
| Director of Research | 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 | Dr Séverine Genieys-Kirk | s.g.kirk@ed.ac.uk |
| Dr Elena Sanz Ortega | elena.sanz@ed.ac.uk | |
| Ethics Officer | Dr Mark McLeister | llc.ethicsofficer@ed.ac.uk |
| Director of People & Equalities | Dr Emanuela Patti | Emanuela.Patti@ed.ac.uk |
| Director of Quality and Convenor of School QAE Committee | Dr Katherine Inglis | k.inglis@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 |
The following details are correct for Semester 1 of Academic Year 2023 to 2024:
| 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 | Professor Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila | J.Hameen-Anttila@ed.ac.uk |
| English Literature and Creative Writing DPGRD | Dr Aaron Kelly | Aaron.Kelly@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 |
The following details are correct for Academic Year 2023 to 2024:
| Title | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| MSc Comparative Literature |
Dr Sourit Bhattacharya |
Sourit.Bhattacharya@ed.ac.uk |
| MSc Creative Writing | Dr Miriam Gamble (Co-director) | Creative.Writing@ed.ac.uk |
| Dr Jane McKie (Co-director) | Creative.Writing@ed.ac.uk | |
| Dr Jane Alexander (Co-director) | Creative.Writing@ed.ac.uk | |
| Professor Alan Gillis (Co-director) | Creative.Writing@ed.ac.uk | |
| MSc East Asian Relations | Dr Daniel Hammond | Daniel.Hammond@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 | Dr 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 | A.Goerke@ed.ac.uk |
| MSc Korean Studies | Dr Youngmi Kim | Youngmi.Kim@ed.ac.uk |
| MSc Literature & Modernity | Dr Tim Milnes | Tim.Milnes@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 | Dr Hephzibah Israel | Mavis.Ho@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