Staff

Academic Staff

Permanent academic staff, with their areas of research expertise:

Head of Department

Christine Prentice, MA, PhD (Canterbury)
New Zealand Literature, Post-Colonial Literature, Cultural Studies

Professors

Chris Ackerley, MA (Canterbury) PhD (Tor)
Modernism

Alistair Fox, MA (Canterbury) PhD (W Ontario)

Peter Kuch, BA Hons (Wales), MLitt, DPhil (Oxon), [Eamon Cleary Chair in Irish Studies]

Liam McIlvanney, MA Hons (Glasgow), DPhil (Oxon), [Stuart Chair in Scottish Studies]

Evelyn Tribble, PhD (Berk), [Professor, Donald Collie Chair]
Renaissance Literature

Associate Professors

Jacob Edmond, BA Hons, PhD (Auck)
Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Literary Theory

Senior Lecturers

David Ciccoricco, BS Journalism (Colorado), BA Hons, PhD (Canterbury)
narrative theory, digital literature

Simone Drichel, MA (Freiburg), PhD (Vic)
New Zealand and Postcolonial Literature, Critical and Cultural Theory

Thomas McLean, BA (Loyola), MA (Boston College), PhD (Iowa)
Nineteenth-Century Literature

Simone Celine Marshall, BA (Victoria), BA Hons (Waikato), MA Hons (Waikato), PhD (Sydney)
Fifteenth-Century English literature; Medieval women's literature; palaeography and codicology; academic writing; ICT and modes of writing

Shef Rogers, BA (Emory) MA PhD (Chicago)
Eighteenth-Century Literature, Bibliography

Rochelle Simmons, MA (Auck), PhD (Toronto)
Twentieth-Century Literature, Film Studies

Paul Tankard, BA, DipEd, MA, PhD (Monash)
Eighteenth-Century Literature, Johnson and Boswell, Fantasy, Lewis and the Inklings, Paratextuality, Essays, Writing

Greg Waite, BA (Otago) MA PhD (Toronto)
Old English, Middle English and Old Norse

Lecturers

 

Teaching Fellows

Nicola Cummins, BA, Dip Tchg (Auck), MA (Otago), TESOL Cert. Writing

Emeritus Professors

Colin Gibson, MA (NZ) PhD (Otago)
Drama (part-time)

Jocelyn Harris, MA (Otago) PhD (London)
Eighteenth-Century Literature and Women's Literature

Lawrence Jones, Emeritus Professor, MA PhD (UCLA)
American Literature, Victorian Literature and New Zealand Studies

Honorary Fellows

John Hale, MA (Oxon) PhD (Edin) DipEd (Durh) LittD (Otago)
Renaissance Literature, Milton

Keith Maslen, MA (Cantab and NZ), MLitt and DLitt (Oxford)
Bibliography

Burns Fellow

David Howard (2013)

Administrative Staff

Liz Lammers - Departmental Administrator

Kylie Smail - Administrative Assistant

Irene Sutton - Part-time Clerical Assistant

Jo Oranje - Part-time Receptionist