English Research
English staff at Lincoln are currently undertaking research that spans six centuries and three continents, and are also highly productive in the field of creative writing. There are particular strengths in twenty-first century writing, nineteenth-century studies, drama, gothic literature, women's writing and utopian studies. English hosts two vibrant and productive research groups:
21st Century Research Group
Launched in May 2012, the 21st Century Research Groupis a lively cross-disciplinary collaboration of staff and students, currently from English, Media, Performing Arts, Art & Design, and Business & Law at the University of Lincoln working on aesthetic, digital and environmental mediations of the 21st century. The group has organised seminars with internal and external speakers, book launches, symposia, colloquia and conferences. Recent examples of events include the hosting of New Economics Foundation economist, James Meadway who gave a talk on debt in the 21st century (November 2013), As Above So Below: a colloquium on Drone Culture (May 2014), and the 3rd biennial international conference, What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English. http://21cresearchgroup.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/
The Nineteenth-Century Research Group
The Nineteenth-Century Research Group brings together academics to further interdisciplinary inquiry into the history and culture of the long nineteenth century. The group has organised two conferences at Lincoln, one on life writing and one on travel, both of which led to published essay collections. There is a strong relationship with the Tennyson Research Centre, with whom we collaborate on both teaching and research. The group fosters connections with academics beyond the University of Lincoln: we regularly host external speakers, as well as colleagues from Bishop Grosseteste University and independent scholars from the region. http://c19group.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/
Dr Siân Adiseshiah
Dr Siân Adiseshiah is Reader in English Literature and Drama at the University of Lincoln. She is a specialist in contemporary theatre (feminist playwriting and political theatre in particular), utopianism and 21st-century studies. Her first book was Churchill's Socialism: Political Resistance in the Plays of Caryl Churchill (CSP, 2009) and second (a co-edited collection [with Rupert Hildyard]) was Twenty-First Century Fiction: What Happens Now (Palgrave, 2013). She is working on a third (a co-edited collection [with Louise LePage]) called Twenty-First Century Drama: What Happens Now, which is due to be published by Palgrave in 2015 and for this she is writing a chapter on 21st-century performances of class. She is also working on a new monograph, with the title Utopian Drama: in search of a genre. Siân is founder and coordinator of Lincoln's 21st Century Research Group: http://21cresearchgroup.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/
Professor Lucie Armitt
Professor Lucie Armitt is Chair of Contemporary English Literature at the University of Lincoln. She is a specialist in the Gothic, contemporary women's writing and all areas of the literary fantastic. She is an Associate Editor of the award-winning journal Contemporary Women's Writing (OUP) and founding Treasurer of the global research network the Contemporary Women's Writing Association http://www.the-cwwa.org/.Her most recent book is Twentieth-Century Gothic (University of Wales Press, 2011). She is currently working on a co-authored book (with Scott Brewster) titled Gothic Literature, Travel and Tourism.
Michael Blackburn
Michael is a poet, publisher and part-time lecturer. His previous poetry titles include The Prophecy of Christos (Jackson’s Arm) and The Ascending Boy (Flambard Press) plus various hypertext works, the most recent being Portrait of the Artist as a Cyborg. Current projects include two book-length collections: Where Gravity Begins (examination of the spirit of place, using the geography and history of Lincolnshire as the core material) andBig on the Hawkesbury (based on the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales). He is also looking for publishers for two just-completed collections: Twisted Fish and The Days, How They Pass.
Dr Scott Brewster
Dr Scott Brewster's research interests lie in Gothic literature, Irish Studies, modern poetry and psychoanalysis, and he has published widely in these fields. His principal publications are Lyric (Routledge, 2009), Irish Literature Since 1990: Diverse Voices (MUP, 2009), Inhuman Reflections: Thinking the Limits of the Human (MUP, 2000) and Ireland in Proximity: History, Gender, Space (Routledge, 1999). His current projects are Gothic Literature, Tourism and Travel (with Lucie Armitt, University of Lincoln), and These Haunted Isles: the British and Irish Ghost Story since 1820 (with Luke Thurston, University of Aberystwyth). He was President of the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) between 2005 and 2009, and currently serves on the National Council of the British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS).
Dr Ruth Charnock
Dr Ruth Charnock’s research interests lie particularly in the fields of contemporary American literature and culture, affect studies, psychoanalysis, critical theory and feminism. Her most recent publication is ‘Incest in the 1990s: reading Anais Nin’s “Father Story”’ [Life Writing, December 2013] and she has a chapter forthcoming in the edited collection Patriarchal Moments [Bloomsbury, 2014] entitled “’His peremptory prick’: the failure of the phallic in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve” and in the edited collection Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture [IB Tauris, 2015] on cruel optimism in the HBO tv series Girls. Her present book-length project is entitled By Heart: Care in Contemporary American Culture, and she is interested in contemporary American literature and culture and notions of ‘authentic’ feeling. She is also hosting a symposium on the musician Joni Mitchell at Lincoln in June, 2015 (http://courtandsparksymposium.wordpress.com/).
Dr Owen Clayton
Dr Owen Clayton is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Lincoln. His interests include transatlantic visual culture of the long nineteenth-century, working–class studies and, increasingly, Anglo-Saxonism. He has published on William Dean Howells in the journal Nineteenth-Century Literature (University of California Press), and also has a chapter on Jack London in an edited collection entitled Transatlantic Traffic and (Mis)Translations (University Press of New England). His first monograph, Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915, is coming out with Palgrave MacMillan at the end of 2014.
Dr Amy Culley
Dr Amy Culley's research interests are in the literature and culture of the eighteenth century and Romantic period, particularly women’s writing and life writing. She is the editor of Women’s Court and Society Memoirs, volumes 1-4(Pickering and Chatto, 2009) and co-editor of Women’s Life Writing, 1700-1850: Gender, Genre and Authorship (Palgrave, 2012).Her book British Women’s Life Writing, 1760-1840: Friendship, Community, and Collaboration will be published by Palgrave in 2014. New research interests include the theory and practice of editing women's writing and narratives of ageing in the eighteenth century.
Dr Martin Eve
Dr Martin Paul Eve is a lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln, specialising in contemporary American fiction, primarily the works of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace. Martin's first monograph, Pynchon and Philosophy was published in April 2014 with Palgrave Macmillan while his second book, Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future is under contract with Cambridge University Press and forthcoming at the end of 2014. His next book, Metafiction After the Millennium, is currently under preparation. He has recently published articles, or has articles forthcoming, in Textual Practice, Journal of American Studies, SAGE Open, C21 and Neo-Victorian Studies, as well as many edited collections. Martin edits the open access journal of Pynchon scholarship, Orbit. In addition, Martin is well-known for his work on open access, appearing before the UK House of Commons Select Committee BIS Inquiry into Open Access, writing for the British Academic Policy Series on the topic, being a steering-group member of the OAPEN-UK project, the Jisc National Monograph Strategy Group, the SCONUL Strategy Group on Academic Content and Communications, the Open Knowledge Foundation's Open Access Steering Group and the HEFCE Open Access Monographs Expert Reference Panel and, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, establishing the Open Library of Humanities. Martin is also a Microsoft Certified Professional in C# and the .NET Framework.
Dr Hannah Field
Dr Hannah Field's main research interests are nineteenth-century literature and culture, book history, and children's literature. Her most recent essay appeared in Magical Tales: Myth, Legend and Enchantment in Children's Books, the volume accompanying the Bodleian Library's record-breaking 2013 exhibition. A new project concerning the legal deposit of popular and ephemeral print in the nineteenth century received the Bibliographical Society's Falconer Madan Award for 2014.
Dr Sorcha Gunne
Sorcha’s research interests are in contemporary world literature, gender studies and feminism, and postcolonial studies. Her book, Space, Place and Gendered Violence in South African Writing, will be published early in early 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan. She co-edited Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives (Routledge 2010) and has published articles on a range of topics in Contemporary Women’s Writing, Postcolonial Text, and Études Irlandaises. She has a number of articles and book chapters forthcoming, including contributions to Making Difference in the Global Market: The Production, Circulation and Reception of Transnational Imaginaries (Belén Martin Lucas, ed.), Globalizing Literary Genres, (Habjan & Imlinger, eds) and is co-editing a special issue of Atlantic Studies on world literature in the Atlantic region. Her new research project is on the gendering of work in contemporary world literature.
Dr Rupert Hildyard
Rupert has written on early twentieth century cultural history, and current research interests include ecocriticism, contemporary poetry and eighteenth century culture. He organised and hosted the 2006 Association for the Study of Literature & the Environment conference on ‘The Future of Ecocriticism’ at Lincoln University, and edited the latest edition of Green Letters, the journal of ASLE UK. His most recent papers have been on contemporary fiction (John Lanchester’s Mr Phillips), and the connection between Ecocriticism and theories of poetry.
Dr Christopher Marlow
Dr Christopher Marlow’s research deals primarily with early modern drama and poetry, and he is particularly interested in representations of masculinity and friendship in the period. Recent publications have been concerned with drama written and performed at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. His book on this topic, Performing Masculinity in English University Drama 1598-1636, was published by Ashgate in April 2013. Christopher is also interested in the intersection of sexuality, politics and community in drama, and has written on Doctor Who and the concept of adaptation. His next book, on Shakespeare and Cultural Materialism, will be published by Arden Shakespeare in early 2017.
Catherine Redpath
Catherine’s current areas of interest are principally gender and sexuality studies, particularly the work of Julia Kristeva and Helene Cixous. She is also interested in film studies; in particular, she is concerned with evaluating how films construct gendered subjectivities. She is especially interested in representations of ‘shifting identities’ in terms of post 9/11 notions of the fragmented ‘self’ and this has led her to research the fast evolving area of trauma studies. She has previously published on the eighth and ninth century Viking Eddas and Sagas and remains interested in this area.
Dr Phil Redpath
Phil’s research interests lie largely in twentieth century and post-millenial literature. He has particular interests in William Golding, Ted Hughes and Mervyn Peake and has written books and articles on all three. Currently he is preparing to write a conference paper on the novels of David Peace and is also writing on the literature produced during the era of Margaret Thatcher. He has an interest in all things Postmodern, especially as they link to theory. His other big interest is creative writing and he has just completed his third novel. He is also working on a volume of poetry.
Dr Sarah Stovell
Sarah's interests are mainly in the modern historical novel, especially neo-Victorianism and biographical historical fiction, and she is interested in examining where the construction of fiction lies within historiography and the narrative of history. Her most recent publication is The Night Flower, a neo-Victorian novel exploring the system of criminal transportation from a female perspective, and she is currently working on a biographical novel about Dorothy Wordsworth.
Dr Rebecca Styler
Dr Rebecca Styler's research interests lie in nineteenth-century women's religious writing, the religious symbolism of the child, and religious/feminist Gothic. She recently published articles on 'Elizabeth Gaskell and the Madonna: Metaphors of the Maternal Divine', and 'Revelations of Childhood: Anna Jameson, Mary Howitt, and Victorian Women's Spiritual Autobiography'. She is currently working on a book on the maternal divine image in literature, 1850-1920.
