Staff
Get to know the team in English Literature.
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.
Undergraduate enquiries
Email us about undergraduate study in English and Scottish Literature
Postgraduate enquiries
Email us about taught postgraduate programmes in English Literature
Email us about postgraduate research in English Literature
Head of English Literature
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Role | Phone number | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suzanne Trill | Head of English and Scottish Literature | S.Trill@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4291 |
Teaching office staff
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Butler | Senior Administrator | michael.butler@ed.ac.uk |
| June Cahongo | Undergraduate Administrator | J.Cahongo@ed.ac.uk |
| Sheila Strathdee | Undergraduate Administrator | S.Strathdee@ed.ac.uk |
Academic staff
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Role | Phone number | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Adkins | Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow | peter.adkins@ed.ac.uk | |
| Dr Beatrice Alex | Senior Lecturer and Chancellor's Fellow in Text Mining | balex@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 6508988 |
| Dr Jane Alexander | Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing | jane.alexander@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 651 7112 |
| Dr Marie Allitt | Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in Twentieth Century Literature | marie.allitt@ed.ac.uk | |
| Kate Ash-Irisarri | Lecturer in Late Medieval Scottish & English Literature | k.ash-irisarri@ed.ac.uk | |
| Benjamin Bateman | Senior Lecturer in Post-1900 British Literature | benjamin.bateman@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4288 |
| Dr Sourit Bhattacharya | Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literatures | sourit.bhattacharya@ed.ac.uk | |
| Hannah Boast | Chancellor's Fellow | hannah.boast@ed.ac.uk | |
| Dermot Cavanagh | Senior Lecturer | Dermot.Cavanagh@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3606 |
| Dr Lynda Clark | Lecturer in Creative Writing (Interdisciplinary Futures) | lynda.clark@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4166 |
| Simon Cooke | Senior Lecturer | Simon.Cooke@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 651 3996 |
| Paul Crosthwaite | Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature | Paul.Crosthwaite@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3614 |
| Sarah Dunnigan | Senior Lecturer | S.M.Dunnigan@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 8304 |
| Dr Patrick Errington | Lecturer | p.errington@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)1316504025 |
| David Farrier | Professor of Literature and the Environment | David.Farrier@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3607 |
| Penny Fielding | Grierson Professor of English Literature | Penny.Fielding@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3609 |
| Alexander Freer | Lecturer in Romanticism | alex.freer@ed.ac.uk | |
| Miriam Gamble | Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing | mgamble@staffmail.ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4285 |
| Alan Gillis | Professor of Modern Poetry | Alan.Gillis@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3050 |
| Anna Girling | Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in Twentieth-Century Literature | Anna.Girling@ed.ac.uk | |
| Dr Kiefer Holland | Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow | k.holland@ed.ac.uk | |
| Owen Holland | Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature | owen.holland@ed.ac.uk | |
| Keith Hughes | Lecturer | Keith.Hughes@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3048 |
| Katherine Inglis | Chancellor's Fellow - Senior Lecturer | K.Inglis@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3617 |
| Robert Irvine | Reader in Scottish Literature | R.P.Irvine@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3605 |
| Dr Carole Jones | Senior Lecturer | Carole.Jones@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3068 |
| Aaron Kelly | Senior Lecturer | Aaron.Kelly@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3071 |
| Michelle Keown | Professor of Pacific and Postcolonial Literature | Michelle.Keown@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 6856 |
| Anouk Lang | Senior Lecturer | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 8936 |
| Alexandra Lawrie | Senior Lecturer | Alex.Lawrie@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 8968 |
| James Loxley | Professor of Early Modern Literature | James.Loxley@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3610 |
| Simon Malpas | Senior Lecturer | Simon.Malpas@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3596 |
| Nicola McCartney | Nicola.McCartney@ed.ac.uk | ||
| Gerard McKeever | Lecturer in Scottish Literature | gerard.mckeever@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 651 1236 |
| Jane McKie | Senior Lecturer | Jane.McKie@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3899 |
| Timothy Milnes | Professor of Romantic Literature and Philosophy | Tim.Milnes@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3615 |
| Dr Terri Ochiagha | Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literatures | t.ochiagha@ed.ac.uk | |
| Désha A Osborne | Chancellor's Fellow | Desha.Osborne@ed.ac.uk | |
| Maddy Potter | Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in the Long Nineteenth Century (Romanticism/Victorianism) | madeline.potter@ed.ac.uk | |
| David Salter | Lecturer | David.Salter@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3055 |
| Martin Schauss | Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow | mschauss@ed.ac.uk | |
| Kim Sherwood | Lecturer in Creative Writing | Kim.Sherwood@ed.ac.uk | |
| Dr Hannah Simpson | Lecturer in Drama and Performance | h.e.a.simpson@ed.ac.uk | |
| Lee Spinks | Senior Lecturer | Lee.Spinks@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3616 |
| Allyson Stack | Senior Lecturer | Allyson.Stack@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4290 |
| Andrew Taylor | Senior Lecturer | Andrew.Taylor@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4584 |
| Alice Thompson | Lecturer | Alice.Thompson@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4535 |
| Alex Thomson | Professor of Modern Literature and Critical Theory | Alex.Thomson@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3058 |
| Rebecca Tierney-Hynes | Senior Lecturer | r.tierneyhynes@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 8410 |
| Suzanne Trill | Head of English and Scottish Literature | S.Trill@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4291 |
| Anna Vaninskaya | Senior Lecturer | Anna.Vaninskaya@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4284 |
| Greg Walker | Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature | Greg.Walker@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3049 |
| Dr Annie Webster | Leverhulme Early Career Fellow | annie.webster@ed.ac.uk | |
| Dr Alice Wickenden | Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in Early Modern Literature | alice.wickenden@ed.ac.uk | |
| Jonathan Wild | Senior Lecturer | JWild@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 651 3191 |
Emeritus Professors and Honorary Fellows
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| Ian Campbell | Honorary Fellow | Ian.Campbell@ed.ac.uk |
| Sarah Carpenter | Honorary Fellow | Sarah.Carpenter@ed.ac.uk |
| Peter Garside | Honorary Fellow | Peter.Garside@ed.ac.uk |
| Roger Savage | Honorary Fellow | Roger.Savage@ed.ac.uk |
| Randall Stevenson | Emeritus Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature | Randall.Stevenson@ed.ac.uk |
| Olga Taxidou | Professor Emerita of Drama and Performance Studies | Olga.Taxidou@ed.ac.uk |
| Karina Williamson McIntosh | Honorary Fellow | Karina.Williamson@ed.ac.uk |