People

Members of the CTTR are drawn drawn principally from the School of Humanities within the Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences, University of Wolverhampton, but include Honorary Research Professors and Fellows from beyond the institution. Below is a list of the current membership and their research specialisms:

Dr Nicola Allen, BA, MA, PhD (UCE). Twentieth-century writing, in particular the work of Patti Smith, Jim Crace, Leonora Carrington, and Tove Jansson; suffragette literature.

Dr Esther Asprey, MA (Edinburgh), MA, PhD (Leeds). West Midlands dialects; dialect in literature; dialect boundaries, accent perception.

Dr Alan Bailey, BA (Cambridge), MPhil (York), PhD (Oxford Brooks). Epistemology scepticism and the philosophy of David Hume; philosophy of religion.

Dr Charley Barnes, BA, MA, PhD (Birmingham). Creative writing; representations of female violence in contemporary fiction.

Dr Daisy Black, BA (Cambridge), MA, PhD (Manchester). Medieval religious drama, in particular time and gender; performance and adaptation of medieval plays for modern audiences.

Dr Lisa Blower, BA (Sheffield Hallam), MA (Manchester), PhD (Bangor). Creative writing; working-class fictions; the short form; regional voices and autogeographical selves.

Josiane Boutonnet, BA (Wolverhampton), MA (Birmingham). Humour and language; gender and language; bilingualism.

Dr Aidan Byrne, BA, MA (Wales), PhD (Wolverhampton). 1930s literature and culture; Welsh literature; literary masculinities; cultural studies and theory.

Dr Benjamin Colbert, BA (Tulane), MPhil (Oxon), PhD (UCLA). Nineteenth-century travel writing; Romanticism; the Shelley Circle; Romantic-period satire; bibliography.

Professor Martin Dangerfield.  European integration; EU enlargement; EU-Russia relations; European Neighbourhood Policy; Central European affairs.

Dr Helen Davies. Disability studies; neo-Victorianism.

Professor Meena Dhanda, BA, MA (Panjab), DPhil (Oxon). Idenity and ethics; radical socio-political philosophy; feminist theory; Punjab Dalits, inter-caste  relations; caste in Britain; critical philosophy of race.

Dr Thomas Dickins, HRF: BA, MA (Leeds), PhD (Wolverhampton). Slavonic applied linguistics: in particular, Czech lexicology, language variation and change, linguistic purism and loanwords, and language and political discourse.

Dr Robert Francis, MA (Teeside), PhD (Wolverhampton). Creative writing; Black Country literature; geo-poetics.

Professor Aleksandra Galasinska, BA, MA (Krakow), PhD. Discourse and narrative analysis; language and identity; post-communist transformation; post-enlargement migration.

Dr Stephen E. Gregg, BA, PhD (Wales). Religion in contemporary society; lived religion/vernacular religion; new religious movements; religion, comedy, and performance; method and theory in the study of religion.

Professor Sebastian Groes, MA (VU University, Amsterdam), MA (East Anglia), PhD (East Anglia). Twentieth and twenty-first century Literature, Culture and Theory, with a particular emphasis on Modernist and contemporary writing; Digital Humanities; the intersections between science and the arts and humanities.

Dr Glyn Hambrook, HRF: BA, PhD (Nottingham). Comparative European literature, theory and methodologies; European fin de siècle (1880-1910); reception of French literature in fin de siècle Spain.

Judith Hamilton, MSc (Edinburgh). TESOL, EFL, and applied linguistics.

Dr Anna Horolets. HRF: University of Gdansk, Poland.

Dr Mark Jones, BA (Birmingham Polytechnic), MA, PhD (Sussex). 20th- and 21st-century fiction; genre fiction; popular culture.

Dr Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna. BA, MA, PhD (Warsaw). Migration studies, immigration and deportation regimes, care and transnational families, Mexico-US migration, EU citizens in contemporary UK, qualitative research methods.

Dr Paula Satne, BA (Buenos Aires); PhD (Manchester). Political philosophy and ethics; human evil and the ethics and politics of forgiveness and memory.

Dr Opinderjit Kaur Takhar, BA (Wales), MA (Cardiff), PhD (Wales). Sikh studies and South Asian studies: sects, equality, caste identity, gender issues.

Marion West, BA (Nottingham), MSc (Aston). Conversation analysis in higher education.