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Literature
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Julius Ayodeji
School of Art and Design
Subject(s): Internet/Online, Literature, Society, Technology
Area(s) of expertise: Blogging (and communities and practice associated with it); Narrative; Story structure
Dr Daniel Cordle
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): Film and Television, International Relations, Literature
Area(s) of expertise: Nuclear / apocalyptic literature and film; Cold War literature and film; Nuclear protest; Postmodern American literature; Twentieth-century American literature (post-1950); Literature and Science; The ‘Two Cultures’ (the relationship between the Arts and the Sciences)
Dr Natasha Hodgson
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): History, Literature, Religion, Sexuality, Society
Area(s) of expertise: The Crusades and the Latin East; Medieval Christianity and Islam; Women and the crusades; Chivalry and the study of masculinities; Medieval gender studies; Tournaments and medieval war games; The Norman conquest; Domesday book; Arthurian literature; Historical fiction; Medieval animal symbolism and bestiaries
Dr Peter J.Smith
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): Literature, Theatre
Area(s) of expertise: Renaissance literature; Shakespeare; Theatre history; Theatre reviewing
Dr Judith Rowbotham (continued)
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): Law, Literature, Media, Royalty, Society
Area(s) of expertise: Law, prostitutes, sexual deviancy history; Women, suffrage and law; history of the legal process; Human rights history; Law and empire; Lawyers, trials, magistrates and magistrates courts history; Married women’s property rights; Philanthropy and law; Women, suffrage and law; Victorian literature and publishing industry/newspapers; Media crime reportage; Missionaries and perceptions of race; British royal family; Popularising the monarchy; Philanthropy and prostitutes; Women and philanthropy
Dr Carl Thompson
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): History, Literature, The Environment and Geography
Area(s) of expertise: Shipwrecks; Byron; Romantic literature; Romantic poetry; Travel writing; Women’s travellers and women’s travel writing; Wordsworth; Exploration
Professor Gregory Woods
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): Film and Television, Health and Wellbeing, Literature, Sexuality
Area(s) of expertise: LGBT studies; Gay/lesbian film, writing and culture; Queer culture; HIV/AIDS; Poetry (as writer and critic)
