King's College Literature Faculty

Professor Clive Bush

Professor Bush runs the Research Centre for American Studies, funded by the School of Humanities. He received his Ph.D. from the University of London, and has published several articles on American literature and culture, including articles on Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman and Roy Fisher. His book-length publications are: The Dream of Reason: American Culture and Society from Independence to the Civil War (London and New York, 1977), Halfway to Revolution: Investigation and Crisis in the Work of Henry Adams, William James, and Gertrude Stein (New Haven and London, 1991), and Out of Dissent: Five Contemporary British Poets (London, 1997).

Email: clive.bush@kcl.ac.uk

Dr. Clare Brant

Dr. Brant received her DPhil in eighteenth-century literature from Oxford. Her work focuses on feminism, gender and cultural studies. In addition to various articles on eighteenth-century women's writing, she has edited Women, Texts and Histories 1525-1760 with Diane Purkiss (London, 1992), and Rethinking Sexual Harassment with Yun Lee Too (London, 1994). Dr. Brant is currently working on a book on eighteenth-century letters and British culture.

Email: clare.brant@kcl.ac.uk

Janet Cowen

Janet Cowen is a senior lecturer in Medieval studies. Her interests include later Middle English, especially Chaucer and Malory, and Medieval drama. Her publications include Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, ed. (London, 1969); Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry, ed. with Julia Boffey (London, 1991); The Legend of Good Women, ed. with George Kane (Michigan, 1995).

Email: janet.cowen@kcl.ac.uk

Marie Denley

Marie Denley is a lecturer in Medieval studies whose particular areas of interest include later Medieval works of religious instruction, death literature, and Medieval educational practices and their literary consequences. Under the authorial name Marie Collins, she has published pieces in Notes and Queries and Essays and Studies of the English Association, and two books: Caxton: the Description of Britain (1988) and A Medieval Book of Seasons, with Virginia Davis (1991). She is currently writing articles on "The Study of Latin Vocabulary in Medieval English Schools" and "The Good Teacher in Medieval England" (working titles), and is also working on another book jointly with Virginia Davis: A Woman's Business: Marriage and Medieval Girls.

Email: marie.denley@kcl.ac.uk

Professor David Ganz

Professor Ganz received his DPhil at Oxford, and currently holds the Chair in Palaeography at King's. In addition to palaeography, his interests include the history of the medieval book. Professor Ganz has worked on Early Medieval manuscripts, especially those produced in the Carolingian empire. He is currently completing a study of Einhard and a chapter on Anglo-Saxon libraries for A History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, ed. T. Webber and E. Leedham-Green (Cambridge, forthcoming). He has published various articles on palaeography and early Medieval history, including "Book Production and the Rise of Caroline Minuscule" in The New Cambridge Medieval History Volume II (Cambridge, 1995), and "Mass Production of Early Medieval Manuscripts: The Carolingian Bibles from Tours" in The Early Medieval Bible: Its Production, Decoration and Use (Cambridge, 1994). He has also written a book titled Corbie in the Carolingian Renaissance (Paris and Sigmaringen, 1990).

Email: david.ganz@kcl.ac.uk

Dr. Paul Kenny

Dr. Kenny received his DPhil from Oxford. His areas of interest include theories of argumentation, cultural and political thought, and African and Caribbean writing.

Email: paul.d.kenny@kcl.ac.uk

Professor Clare Lees

Professor Lees, who specializes in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Studies, received her Ph.D. from Liverpool University. Her books include: Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages (1994), Tradition and Belief: Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England (1999), and Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England (2001). She has also published a number of articles on Old English literature and feminist theory.

Email: clare.lees@kcl.ac.uk

Dr. Alan Marshall

Dr. Marshall received his Ph.D. from the University of York. He teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. Dr. Marshall is currently completing a book on modern American poetry, and has published articles on T. S. Eliot (in The Cambridge Companion [1994]), Edward Thomas, George Oppen, Robert Creeley, and J. H. Prynne.

Email: alan.marshall@kcl.ac.uk

Dr. Gordon McMullan

Dr. McMullan received his MA at University of Kansas and his DPhil at Oxford. His teaching and research interests include Early Modern literature and culture, especially Shakespeare and Jacobean drama. Dr. McMullan has recently edited the Arden Shakespeare edition of Henry VIII (Walton-on-Thames, 2000). His previous publications include The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After, ed. with Jonathan Hope (London, 1992), The Politics of Unease in the Plays of John Fletcher (Amherst, 1994), and Renaissance Configurations: Voices/Bodies/Spaces, 1580-1690, ed. (London, 1998).

Email: gordon.mcmullan@kcl.ac.uk

Dr. George Myerson

Dr. Myerson received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He teaches courses on Romanticism, rhetoric, and critical theory. He is currently working in two main areas: 1) discourses of knowledge, particularly environmental knowledge, where he is developing a study of the BSE crisis, including its gendered aspects; and 2) the history of scientific discourses, returning to his earlier work on Paracelsus and widening this to a study of alchemy and alchemical thought. Dr. Myerson's publications include The Argumentative Imagination (Manchester, 1992), Rhetoric, Reason and Society (London, 1994), and The Language of Environment with Yvonne Rydin (London, 1996).

Email: george.myerson@kcl.ac.uk

Professor David Nokes

Professor Nokes received his MA and his Ph.D. at Cambridge. He specializes in eighteenth-century literature, and his research and teaching interests include the Augustans, Swift, Gay, and Austen. In addition to publishing biographies of these three authors, Professor Nokes has adapted Richardson's Clarissa and Anne Bronte's Tenant of Wildfell Hall for television.

Email: david.nokes@kcl.ac.uk

Professor Leonee Ormond

Professor Ormond teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. Her research interests include the Victorians; the relationship between literature and the fine arts during the nineteenth century; modern drama, Tennyson, Barrie, and Shaw. Most recently, Professor Ormond has contributed an essay to the catalogue of the forthcoming John Everett Millais exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, and has another article on the artist appearing in a Centenary volume. Professor Ormond was also one of the four organisers of the Lord Leighton Centenary Exhibition (Royal Academy 1996). She is currently working on a book on the treatment of the Old Masters in Victorian literature. She has published several literary biographies, including J. M. Barrie (Edinburgh, 1987), Tennyson: A Literary Life (London, 1993), and Frederic, Lord Leighton, with Stephen Jones, Christopher Newall, Richard Ormond and Benedict Read (London, 1996).

Email: leonee.ormond@kcl.ac.uk

Christine Rees

Christine Rees is a senior lecturer in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature. Her areas of interest include Marvell, Milton, and utopian literature. Her publications include The Judgement of Marvell (London, 1989), Utopian Imagination and Eighteenth-Century Fiction: from 'Robinson Crusoe' to 'Rasselas' (London, 1996), and several articles on seventeenth-century poetry. She is currently working on a book about Johnson reading Milton.

Email: christine.rees@kcl.ac.uk

Professor Max Saunders

Professor Saunders received his MA at Harvard and his Ph.D. at Cambridge University. His particular interest within the field of twentieth-century literature is high modernism, and he has written articles on such authors as Ford Madox Ford, James, Conrad, Pound, Lawrence, Eliot, Woolf, Joyce, and Rhys. He has published two books on Ford, Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1996), and Ford Madox Ford: Selected Poems (Manchester, 1997).

Email: max.saunders@kcl.ac.uk

Professor John Stokes

Professor Stokes received his Ph.D. at Reading University. He specializes in modern and contemporary theatre, and is currently editing Oscar Wilde's journalism. His publications include: Resistible Theatres (London, 1972); In the Nineties (Chicago, 1989); Arthur Symons: A Bibliography, with Karl Beckson, Ian Fletcher, Wayne Market (North Carolina, 1990); Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations (Cambridge, 1996); and Eleanor Marx (1855-1898): Life, Work, Contacts, ed. (London, 2000).

Email: john.a.stokes@kcl.ac.uk

Dr. Louise Sylvester

Dr. Sylvester received her Ph.D. from the University of London. She has a wide range of interests, including lexigraphical studies, Middle English literature, and twentieth-century Jewish writing. She has recently edited a collection of essays with Christian J. Kay, Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies Presented to Jane Roberts (Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 2001). Her previous publications include Studies in the Lexical Field of Expectation (Amsterdam, 1994), and Middle English Word Studies: A Word and Author Index (Cambridge, 2000).

Email: louise.sylvester@kcl.ac.uk

Professor Ann Thompson

Professor Thompson received her Ph.D. from the University of London. She works on Shakespeare and the literature of the Early Modern period, women's writing, and film. She has published various articles on editing Shakespeare and on feminist criticism and Early Modern literature. Her books include Shakespeare, Meaning and Metaphor (Hemel Hempstead and Iowa, 1987), Teaching Women: Feminism and English Studies (Manchester and New York, 1989), Writers and Their Work: 'Hamlet' (Plymouth, 1996), and Women Reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900 (Manchester and New York, 1997).

Email: ann.thompson@kcl.ac.uk

Dr. Mark Turner

Dr. Turner received his Ph.D. from the University of London. His areas of interest include Victorian fiction and periodical history, urban literature and culture of the nineteenth century, and gay and lesbian studies. He is editor of the interdisciplinary journal Media History. Dr. Turner is currently working on two projects: one on streetwalking in London and New York in the nineteenth century, and the other on serial literature and theories of memory in the Victorian period. In addition to articles on Victorian culture--in particular on George Eliot, Lord Leighton, and on nineteenth-century periodical literature--he has also published From Author to Text: Re-Reading George Eliot's "Romola," with Caroline Levine (1998) and Trollope and the Magazines: Gendered Issues in Mid-Victorian Britain (2000).

Email: mark.2.turner@kcl.ac.uk

Dr. Shamoon Zamir

Dr. Zamir received his Ph.D. from the University of London. His areas of interest are twentieth-century American literature and cultural studies, and Native American and African-American studies. He has published a book titled Dark Voices: W.E.B. Du Bois and American Thought (Chicago, 1995).

Email: shamoon.zamir@kcl.ac.uk

Dr. Rivkah Zim

Dr. Zim received her MA from Cambridge and her Ph.D. from the University of Leeds. She teaches courses in Renaissance literature, and is particularly interested in how Classical and Biblical traditions are used in Renaissance works. Dr. Zim's publications include several articles on Tudor poetry and the Reformation, and English Metrical Psalms: Poetry as Praise and Prayer, 1535-1601 (Cambridge, 1987). She is currently working on a book on prison writing and has also been commissioned to write five short biographies of sixteenth-century English writers for the New Dictionary of National Biography.

Email: rivkah.zim@kcl.ac.uk

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