Former Research Students
The Department has a long record of former students who have continued to pursue successful academic careers. The following list is hardly comprehensive, but results from a recent brief survey.
- Dr Alice Bennett, Lecturer in English Literature, Liverpool Hope University
- Dr Marc Botha, Research Associate, Tipping Points Project, Durham University
- Dr Fran Brearton, Queen's University, Belfast.
- Dr Brian Burton, South Tyneside College.
- Dr Madeleine Callaghan, Lecturer in Romantic Literature, University of Sheffield
- Dr Shane Collins, Head of Student Recruitment, Durham University
- Dr Teti Dragas, Language Centre, Durham University
- Dr Helge Dyvik,University of Bergen, Norway.
- Dr Elizabeth Dutton, Magdalen College, Oxford.
- Dr Ann-Marie Einhaus, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Northumbria University
- Dr Alice Entwistle, University of Glamorgan.
- Dr Maria Frendo, Senior Lecturer, University of Malta.
- Dr Mandy Green, Durham University
- Dr Matthew Hayward, Lecturer in Literature, University of the South Pacific, Fiji
- Dr Katherine Heavey, University Teacher in English Literature, University of Glasgow
- Professor Judith Jesch, Nottingham University.
- Assistant Professor Yi-Chuang E. Lin, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
- Dr Maebh Long, Lecturer in Literature, University of the South Pacific, Fiji
- Dr Peter Lowe, Queen's University, Canada.
- Dr Rachel Lister, Open University
- Dr Tim William Machan, Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA.
- Dr Scott Masson, Tyndale University College, Toronto.
- Dr Emma Miller, Teesside University.
- Dr Mark Sandy, Durham University
- Dr John Shafer, Part-time teacher, Department of English Studies, Durham University.
- Dr Julie Sutherland, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, British Columbia.
- Dr Fiona Tolan, Liverpool John Moores University
- Professor Diana Whaley, Newcastle University.
Recent books and successes include:
- Fran Brearton is the author of The Great War in Irish Poetry (2000).
- Alice Entwistle with Jane Dowson, A History of Twentieth Century British Women's Poetry (2005).
- Peter Lowe, Christian Romanticism: T. S. Eliot's Response to Percy Shelley (2006.
- Scott Masson, Romanticism, Hermeneutics and the Crisis of the Human Sciences (2004)
- Mark Sandy, Poetics of Self and Form in Keats and Shelley : Nietzschean Subjectivity and Genre (2005)
- Diana Whaley, A Dictionary of Lake District Place-Names (2006).
- Dr Will Wootten, awarded a postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Bristol for the next 4 years, researching Penguin Books modern poetry archives.