English staff
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Dr Olufunmilayo Jinadu
Lecturer in Broadcast Journalism
Dr Olufunmilayo 'Funmi' Jinadu recently joined BCU as a Lecturer in Broadcast Journalism. Funmi has experience working on radio as a presenter, news editor and producer in the UK and Nigeria. She has just completed a PhD in journalism at the University of Limerick, Limerick Ireland where she was also a journalism lecturer....
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Professor Andrew Kehoe
Professor of Corpus Linguistics
Andrew Kehoe is Professor of Corpus Linguistics and REF Unit of Assessment Lead for English (UoA27). He has qualifications in both English and Computer Science, and has for over 20 years worked on a series of UKRI-funded projects in the field of Corpus Linguistics: the automated analysis of patterns and trends in large text...
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Dr Robert Lawson
Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics
As an award-winning academic with 15 years of experience investigating the relationship between language and society, Dr Robert Lawson has produced world-leading research with tangible real-world benefits, as well as establishing new research paradigms in media linguistics and applied language studies. Dr Lawson completed his...
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Professor Gregory Leadbetter
Professor of Poetry, Course Director of the MA in Creative Writing, Director of the Institute of Creative and Critical Writing
Professor Gregory Leadbetter is a poet and critic. His research focuses on Romantic poetry and thought, the traditions to which these relate, and the history and practice of poetry more generally. He is the author of two poetry collections, Maskwork (2020) and The Fetch (2016), both with Nine Arches Press, as well...
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Dr Gemma Moss
Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature
Before joining BCU, Gemma taught at the University of Salford and the University of Manchester, where she completed an MA in Postcolonial Literature and an AHRC-funded PhD. Gemma is author of Modernism, Music and the Politics of Aesthetics (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). She is currently editing E. M. Forster’s first...
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Professor Antoinette Renouf
Emeritus Professor of English Language and Linguistics
Antoinette Renouf holds degrees from the Universities of East Anglia and Essex. Her research interests include lexis and lexical semantics, with particular focus on the relationship between textual word patterning and meaning; and automated text analysis for application in document retrieval and knowledge management. She is...
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Professor David Roberts
Professor of English
David's research interests are in theatre and the history and practice of life writing. Publications include monographs for Oxford University Press, Methuen, Palgrave, and Cambridge University Press. He has also worked on major editions of classic texts, most recently of Congreve's The Way of the World (Methuen, 2020) and...
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Naush Sabah
Lecturer in Creative Writing
As well as a lecturer in Creative Writing at BCU, Naush is a freelance writer, editor, and critic specializing in contemporary poetry. She is Editor and Publishing Director at Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, a biannual periodical of contemporary poetry and poetry criticism, described by the TLS as ‘intellectually lithe...
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Professor Philip Smallwood
Emeritus Professor of English
Philip Smallwood, BA (Oxon), M.Phil (Oxon), Ph.D. (London), is Emeritus Professor of English at Birmingham City University and at different times Honorary Visiting Fellow and Honorary Senior Teaching Associate in the Department of English, Bristol University. His teaching and research interests are in the late seventeenth and...
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Dr Serena Trowbridge
Reader in Victorian Literature
Dr. Serena Trowbridge read English and Art History at King's College London, followed by an MA in textual studies at the University of Birmingham. Her PhD, entitled 'Christina Rossetti's Fractured Gothic', was completed at Birmingham City University in 2010, supervised by Professor Fiona Robertson. Her monograph Christina...