English staff
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Dr Soudabeh Ananisarab
Lecturer in Drama
Before joining BCU, Dr Soudabeh Ananisarab taught at the University of Nottingham where she completed an MA in English Literature (Distinction) and a PhD in English. She currently teaches on a range of modules, exploring drama both in theory and practice. Soudabeh’s research interests are predominantly in late nineteenth and...
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Dr Joseph Anderton
Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature
Joseph Anderton writes and teaches on modern and contemporary literature, particularly in relation to dehumanisation; animals and the environment; homelessness; and literary ethics. He is author of Beckett’s Creatures: Art of Failure after the Holocaust (Bloomsbury, 2016), which considers conceptions of the ‘creature’ and...
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Dr Rhiannon Cogbill
Midlands4Cities Postdoctoral Fellow in the Arts and Humanities
Rhiannon is an interdisciplinary literary scholar who explores the representation and construction of health and healthcare in twentieth-century literature and culture. She was awarded her PhD by the University of Birmingham in 2021, and worked in communications and bid writing prior to joining BCU in 2023.
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Dr Emma Franklin
Lecturer in English Linguistics
Emma is a corpus linguist and lexicologist with expertise in corpus lexicography, critical discourse analysis and narrative strategy. Her research spans a range of topics across critical and applied linguistics, with a particular emphasis on ecolinguistics, critical animal studies, posthumanism and linguistic representations of...
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Matt Gee
Research Fellow in Corpus 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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Professor Tatiana Grieshofer
Professor in Language and Law
Professor Tatiana Grieshofer is Professor in Language and Law at Birmingham City University. Tatiana’s empirically driven quantitative and qualitative research explores a wide range of language and communication related topics within family, civil, tribunal and criminal legal settings, with a specific interest on the interplay...
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Dr Helen Hopkins
M4C Postdoctoral Research Fellow
After completing her PhD in international Shakespeare in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s collections in 2021, Helen’s current research takes a broader approach to Shakespeare's role in global diplomacy, investigating how Shakespeare's cultural capital influences diplomatic responses and the potential for leveraging it for...
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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 for 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. He is a...
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Professor Islam Issa
Professor of Literature and History
Islam Issa is a multi-award-winning author, broadcaster, and curator. 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...