Staff
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Dr Soudabeh Ananisarab
Lecturer in Drama
Dr Soudabeh Ananisarab studied at the University of Nottingham where she completed an MA in English Literature (Distinction) and a PhD in English. Her Doctoral thesis explored the development of the Malvern Theatre Festival during the interwar years and its connections with the playwright, George Bernard Shaw. Soudabeh has...
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Dr Joseph Anderton
Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature
Joseph Anderton is the author of Beckett’s Creatures: Art of Failure after the Holocaust (Bloomsbury, 2016), which considers conceptions of the ‘creature’ and ‘creaturely life’ as they appear in Samuel Beckett’s literature and drama. Joe is currently working on his second book, Writing Homelessness: Rough Sleeping in...
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Andy Conway
Course Director for BA (Hons) Film and Screenwriting
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...
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Matt Gee
Research Fellow in Linguistics
Matt Gee works in the field of Corpus Linguistics, developing research and teaching tools as a member of the Research and Development Unit for English Studies . This includes the WebCorp suite of online search and analysis tools, which are designed to treat the web as a source of linguistic data. WebCorp Live refines the...
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Dr Tatiana Grieshofer (formerly Tkacukova)
Reader in Language and Law
Dr Tatiana Grieshofer (formerly Tkacukova) is Reader in Language and Law at Birmingham City University. Tatiana’s interdisciplinary research focuses on the language of the law and courtroom discourse with a specific interest on the interplay between legal and lay communication styles in courtroom settings. Her research...
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Dr Helen Hopkins
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Helen completed her collaborative PhD at Birmingham City University/the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (SBT) in 2021. The AHRC Midlands4Cities funded project, entitled “‘Gifts of the World’?: Creating and Contextualising the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s International Collection”, represents the first scholarly account of the...
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Dr Izabela Hopkins
Researcher
Izabela is involved in a number of research projects with a focus on eighteenth-century theatre and literature, in addition to pursuing her own research in the literature of the American South. Izabela obtained her MA in Literature: Politics and Identity from the University of Worcester. Her doctoral thesis explored...
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Dr Anthony Howe
Reader in English Literature and MA English Literature Course Director
Dr Anthony Howe is Reader in English Literature and Director of Graduate Research in the School of English at Birmingham City University. Originally from the North East of England, he studied at Liverpool (BA; MA) before taking a PhD at Cambridge. Prior to his current post he taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford....
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Professor Islam Issa
Professor of Literature and History
Islam Issa is a multi-award-winning author, curator, and broadcaster. A literary critic and historian, his work focuses on the reception of early modern English literature in global contexts, and the cultural history of the Middle East. Through an international repertoire of publications, exhibitions, TV and radio...
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Professor Howard Jackson
Emeritus Professor
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,...