PME School Of English : Staff

Staff

Professor Mark Addis
Professor of Philosophy - Faculty of Performance, Media & English
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...

Dr Paola Botham
Visiting Lecturer - Faculty of Performance, Media & English
Dr Paola Botham (née Sotomayor) was born in Chile, where she worked as a culture journalist and textbook writer, as well as participating in a range of theatre productions. After moving to the UK in 2001, she completed an MA in British Theatre Studies and a PhD in Drama & Performance. Her doctoral thesis explored how to redefine political theatre in the twenty-first century, using Habermasian philosophy as a theoretical framework. Paola’s published work includes chapter...

Andy Conway
Visiting Lecturer - Faculty of Performance, Media & English
Andy Conway is a novelist and screenwriter based in Birmingham, who graduated from the School of English in 1994 with a 1st in English Language and Literature. He teaches undergraduate courses in Screenwriting, Drama and Adaptation in the School, and also teaches Screenwriting at The National Academy of Writing, Worcester University and Newman College. He has also taught courses on James Joyce's Ulysses and Sceptical Narrative at Kossuth Lajos University in Debrecen, Hungary. His first...

Lucy Fraser
Acting Joint BA Course Director & BA Tutor - Faculty of Performance, Media & English
Lucy Fraser has taught at Birmingham City University since 2002, where she teaches a range of modules within the Department of English. She has taught modules on poetry, various fiction, film, critical methods, cultural studies and narratives. Lucy holds degrees from the University of Coventry, the University of Birmingham and has a PGCE from the University of Worcester. She has taught in secondary school, she has been an examiner for the AQA and Edexcel, and is a Curriculum Area Moderator for...

Matt Gee
Research Administrator/Technician - Faculty of Performance, Media & English
Matt Gee develops research and teaching tools in the Research and Development Unit for English Studies (RDUES). This includes the creation of a fully-fledged search engine ( WebCorp LSE ), designed to treat the web as a source of linguistic data. WebCorp LSE can download, clean-up and present through a search interface texts from the web, especially for corpus linguistic style analysis (including wildcard and part-of-speech search, concordancing, collocations and change...

Izabela Hopkins
Visiting Lecturer - Faculty of Performance, Media & English
Izabela Hopkins is a research student, exploring reconstructions of whiteness in the literature of the American South from 1890 until 1920. She obtained her MA in Literature: Politics and Identity from University of Worcester. She teaches undergraduate modules on critical approaches and contexts, modernism and postmodernism.

Dr Anthony Howe
Senior Lecturer & Joint BA Course Director - Faculty of Performance, Media & English
Dr Anthony Howe was educated at Liverpool and Cambridge and has held posts at both Cambridge and Oxford. His main area of research is Romantic poetry, especially Byron and Shelley. His teaching interests span the range of modern English Literature. He has published several essays about Romantic poetry and is editor of the volume Liberty and Poetic Licence: New Essays on Byron (Liverpool University Press, 2008). He is joint editor, with Professor Michael O'Neill of Durham University, of ...

Professor Richard Ingham
Professor of English Linguistics - Faculty of Performance, Media & English
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...

Professor Howard Jackson
Visiting Lecturer - Faculty of Performance, Media & English
Howard Jackson gained his PhD from Reading University, and his research interests are in English Grammar, Vocabulary and Lexicography. Howard Jackson has written eight books (for Longman and Routledge among others) and numerous articles on grammar, vocabulary and lexicography. An invited speaker at conferences all over Europe, he continues to enjoy an international reputation for his work.

Dr Peter Jackson
Lecturer - Faculty of Performance, Media & English
Peter Jackson teaches a range of subjects in twentieth century literature, film and drama, including modernism, postmodernism, postcolonial writing, gothic or ‘fantastic’ fiction, and different mainstream genres such as detective fiction and children’s fiction. He is responsible for the new module Multiculturalism: Literature, Drama, Film, which he has set up in collaboration with external partners in the arts sector, including Birmingham REP. He holds a DPhil in English...