Our writers
Read more about our team from across the School of the Arts.
David is Co-Director and writes and researches on form and aesthetics in the contemporary novel, contemporary literary/theoretical depictions of the spectral, literature and cinema, and literature and popular music.
Daniel is Co-Director. He is the Colm Tóibín Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool. His debut novel, Nothing (2020), was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Sophie is Co-Director and interdisciplinary scholar, curator and writer, specialising in modernist women writers and artists, fashion, the feminist avant-garde, and feminist approaches to cultural history.
Deryn is Co-Director, a poet, editor and critic. She is especially interested in the relationship between language and the visual arts, and the arts and sciences.
Julian's current projects include work on contemporary pictorial narrative and the intersection between literature, architecture, and nostalgia.
Hannah is Lecturer in Creative Writing: Stage and Screen. She is a playwright, and theatre critic and her academic research and creative practice centres around the relationship between theatrical form and politics.
Lucienne is Senior Lecturer in English Literature in the Department of English. She works primarily in the areas of postcolonial literature and theory, particularly in the British context.
Sandeep's research interests are primarily British and American women’s writing of the early twentieth century, modernism, as well as race and contemporary poetry in English.
John is a poet from Dublin who has published 3 collections of poems with Carcanet Press. Research interests include poetry after modernism, digital poetry, and life writing.
Vid's work is in philosophy of art, especially on the political dimension of contemporary art. In recent publications he has considered socially engaged art, the anti-racist art of the conceptual artist Adrian Piper, and artists' uses of future technologies.
Will primarily works on the critical side of the literary divide, but has interests in various aspects of creative writing such as metafictions, experimental poetry and prose and the impact of new media technologies.
Sam's primary research interests are contemporary literature and the environmental humanities. He is a contributing editor for the quarterly arts journal The White Review and his work has been featured in a variety of arts and media outlets.