Professor Mark Addis
Professor of Philosophy
Mark primarily focuses upon Wittgenstein and related areas but also has active research interests in the philosophies of language, mind, and religion. He has published three books on Wittgenstein, namely, Wittgenstein: Making Sense of Other Minds (1999), Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion (2001) and Wittgenstein: A Guide for the Perplexed (2006). Mark’s contributions to the study of Wittgenstein are widely cited across academic disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, and have received international recognition. He is the General Editor for the Philosophy Insights series at Humanities-Ebooks.
In 2005 Mark was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy at Georgia State University and from 2007 onwards a Visiting Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Aarhus University. He is a Research Associate at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics and Deputy Director for the Centre for the Study of Expertise at Brunel University. Mark is a member of the Schools and Executive Committee of the British Philosophical Association and the AHRC Peer Review College (2007-2014). He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Professor Richard Ingham
Professor of English Linguistics
Richard Ingham holds degrees from the Universities of Oxford and London, and has previously taught at the University of Reading. His teaching profile includes language acquisition, English grammar, and the linguistic history of English. His research interests are in language acquisition and change, with special reference to English.
He has published in a large number of international refereed journals, such as Journal of Child Language, Linguistics, Lingua, Language Variation and Change, Transactions of the Philological Society, Linguistische Berichte, Medium Ævum and Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie. His most frequently cited publications are on Middle English negation and pronoun use in English child language.
His current research focus is on in language in medieval England, especially English-French bilingualism. He has organised two British Academy-funded workshops on contact influences between English and French held here in 2007 and 2008. Following an ACU/BA funded research partnership scheme with the University of Cyprus, targeting leading issues in English historical syntax, he is co-investigator on a Leverhulme-funded research project into cycles of grammatical change.
Andrew Kehoe
Director, RDUES / Course Director, MA in English Linguistics
Andrew Kehoe is Director of the Research and Development Unit for English Studies (RDUES). He studied at the University of Liverpool, gaining qualifications in both English and Computer Science. He researches in the field of Corpus Linguistics, with a particular emphasis on the use of the Web as a source of natural language data and on the development of software tools to facilitate this. Andrew was lead software developer on the WebCorp project and is currently managing the JISC-funded eMargin project, building an online collaborative text annotation tool for use in teaching. He has co-edited two volumes on Corpus Linguistics, and published widely in the field.
Andrew is Course Director of the School's distance-learning MA in English Linguistics.
Dr Robert Lawson
Lecturer / Year 1 Tutor
Dr Robert Lawson completed his ESRC-funded PhD thesis at the University of Glasgow in 2009 which focused on urban adolescent language use in Glasgow. During the course of his PhD, he completed a period of overseas research training at the University of Arizona, taught a range of undergraduate courses at the University of Glasgow and University of Stirling, and presented at a number of international conferences.
Currently, Dr Lawson is working on a number of major publications, including a monograph on his PhD research, an edited volume of sociolinguistics in Scotland, and contributions to volumes on language and masculinity and language and sexuality.
Dr Ursula Lutzky
Lecturer / Year 2 Tutor
Ursula Lutzky studied English, French, Finnish and Estonian at Vienna University, where she completed her MA in English and French studies as well as her PhD in English linguistics. Her PhD thesis (2009), which was awarded a DOC-scholarship by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, contributes to the field of historical pragmatics, dealing with the use and distribution of the discourse markers marry, well and why in Early Modern English (EmodE). Apart from being based on three major EModE corpora, this project additionally involved the extension of the Sociopragmatic Corpus by Jonathan Culpeper through the annotation of 16th and early 17th century- drama texts, showing that corpus methods can reveal new insights into socio-pragmatic phenomena.
Ursula Lutzky previously worked as a lecturer and research assistant at the English department of Vienna University (2005-2010). She has presented and organised workshops at numerous international conferences, published in the field of her research interests and adopted several editorial responsibilities, having been a member of the editorial boards of the Vienna English Working Papers and Folia Linguistica Historica.