{"id":17,"date":"2013-10-08T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T13:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2017-05-05T11:25:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T11:25:28","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"English<\/a><\/p>\n

The English and Creative Writing Team at Staffordshire University are engaged in a variety of writing and research projects.<\/p>\n

The team<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Dr<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr Mark Brown
\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I teach American and contemporary British literature. My favourite modules are on crime fiction and Beat writing. I wasn’t aware of it at first, but much of my teaching revolves around novels concerned with drugs, sex and death – often all at the same time (see American Psycho for extensive illustrations).<\/p>\n

My research is in American urban fiction, and particularly New York fictions. I have published extensively on the poetry, novels and films of Paul Auster.<\/p>\n

Dr Mark Brown: Full profile<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dr<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr Catherine Burgass
\n<\/a><\/strong>I teach nineteenth-, twentieth-century and contemporary British\/American literature with specialist options in regional literature and feminism.\u00a0 My research interests include the semiotics of hair and food (not together) and domestic fiction.<\/p>\n

Dr Catherine Burgass: Full profile<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Dr<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr Melanie Ebdon<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a>My teaching and research interests include ecocriticism, post-colonialism, Gothic literature and magical realist writing.\u00a0\u00a0I am currently working on the novels of Sarah Hall, employing a broadly ecofeminist analysis.<\/p>\n

Dr Melanie Ebdon: Full profile<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Paul<\/a><\/p>\n

Paul Houghton<\/strong>
\n<\/a>My main interest is in contemporary and post-war fiction and I\u2019m particularly interested in short stories and gothic fiction.<\/p>\n

Paul Houghton: Full profile<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Dr<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr Martin Jesinghausen<\/strong>
\n<\/a>My main areas of teaching are in 19th century writing, Modernism, Postmodern culture, and the theory and history of the theatre.<\/p>\n

Dr Martin Jesinghausen: Full profile<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Margaret<\/a>Margaret LeClere<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

My focus is developing Scriptwriting, as an academic subject, by\u00a0exploring, cinema\u2019s roots in photography and painting, as well as its roots in literature.<\/p>\n

Margaret LeClere: Full profile<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Dr<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr Lisa Mansell<\/a><\/strong>
\nI am a poetry specialist working with procedural and Avant-Garde movements. My PhD is in Critical and Creative Writing, and I hold an MA in the Teaching and Practice of Creative Writing, both from Cardiff University.<\/p>\n

Dr Lisa Mansell: Full profile<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Prof<\/p>\n

Professor Douglas Burnham<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

My\u00a0expertise covers European philosophy; postgraduate research methods. My research interests are in the areas of Kant, Nietzsche, hermeneutics, and philosophy\u2019s relation to the arts, especially literature, fine art and wine. I have also written on hermeneutic issues in political theory.<\/p>\n

Current projects include a Nietzsche Dictionary for Bloomsbury-Continuum, a commissioned paper on early Nietzsche, and a book (co-authored with Ole Martin Skilleas of the University of Bergen) presenting a general theory of contextual aesthetics.<\/p>\n

Professor Douglas Burnham: Full profile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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