Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing (CMCW)

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Dr Emily-Rose Baker

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Holocaust memory and representation
  • Film philosophy and ethics 
  • Central and Eastern Europe

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Dr Erin Johnson-Williams

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Decolonisation
  • Imperial legacies of music education
  • Trauma studies

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Mr Isaac Fravashi

Research interests

  • Collage aesthetics in literature
  • Experimental literature
  • Approaches to authorship
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Dr Jakub Boguszak

Lecturer B

Research interests

  • casting practices in Shakespearean productions
  • actors' parts and documents of performance in the early modern period
  • the works of Ben Jonson, printed and performed

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Professor James Jordan

Professor

Research interests

  • The British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Holocaust studies
  • Post-war media in Britain

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Miss Joanna Nissel

Research interests

  • Creative Writing Education
  • Contemporary Poetry
  • Cultural Ecology
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Dr Joseph Owen

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Culture and heritage in place
  • Arts and humanities approaches to law and policy
  • Modernist art and literature
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Dr Justine Pizzo

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Victorian Literature and Culture
  • Victorian Ecology
  • Climate in Literature

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