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Welcome to the Durham University Media Guide to Expertise, a resource for journalists seeking informed comment on a wide variety of topical issues.
To find an expert in a specialist area, please use the 'search' facility to search by keyword or expert surname.
English Literature & Drama
Parent category: Language, Literature & the Arts
Professor Simon James
Senior Lecturer, Department of English Studies
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 42583
Specialist expertise:
- Charles Dickens
- Contemporary Fiction
- Evolution and Literature; Charles Darwin
- George Gissing
- H. G. Wells
- The Novel
- Victorian Literature
Professor John McKinnell
Emeritus Professor, Department of English Studies
Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Specialist expertise:
- late medieval poetry
- medieval & early renaissance drama
- Mythology (especially Norse)
- Viking studies (especially literature)
Dr Samuel Thomas
Lecturer, Department of English Studies
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 46577
Mobile telephone: + 44 (0) 776 9722132
Home telephone: +44 (0)191 3869879
Specialist expertise:
- Critical Theory (especially the Frankfurt School and Slavoj Žižek)
- Literature and Terrorism
- Models of resistance politics in modern and contemporary fiction
- Thomas Pynchon
Professor Patricia Waugh
Professor, Department of English Studies
Leader of Work Package 5, Tipping Points Research Project
Specialist expertise:
- 1960-90 culture, art, literature
- 20th century literature/literary theory
- contemporary writing & cultural ideas
- feminism
- Postmodernism
- science & literature
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