Head of Department
Dr Shef Rogers, BA (Emory), MA, PhD (Chicago)
Eighteenth-Century Literature, Bibliography
Administration
Liz Lammers - Departmental Administrator
Kylie Smail - Administrative Assistant
Dr Karen McLean - Receptionist and Academic Support
Academic Staff
Dr David Ciccoricco, BS Journalism (Colorado), BA Hons, PhD (Canterbury)
Narrative Theory, Digital Literature
Nicola Cummins, BA, Dip Tchg (Auck), MA (Otago), TESOL Cert. Writing
Writing
Dr Simone Drichel, MA (Freiburg), PhD (Victoria)
New Zealand and Postcolonial Literature, Critical and Cultural Theory
Assoc. Prof. Jacob Edmond, BA Hons, PhD (Auckland)
Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Literary Theory
Dr Moyra Sweetnam Evans, BA (Rhodes), BA Hons (Limpopo), MA, D.Litt et Phil (Johannesburg), UED (Rhodes)
Multilingualism, Bilingual Reading, Teaching Endangered Languages, Language Attitudes, TESOL Teacher Training
Dr Anne Feryok, BA, MA (Syracuse), PhD (Auckland)
Second Language Teaching and Learning, Sociocultural and Activity Theory, Motivation, Feedback, Language Teacher Cognitions
Dr Hunter Hatfield, MA (Mississippi), PhD (Hawai'i at Mānoa)
Psycholinguistics, Phonology, Speech Perception, Pragmatics, University Preparation and Outcomes
Prof. Peter Kuch, BA Hons (Wales), MLitt, DPhil (Oxon), [Eamon Cleary Chair in Irish Studies]
Yeats, Joyce, Twentieth-century Irish Literary History, French Literary Theory, Australian Writers, Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century Literature, Bibliography and Editing, Novel into Film
Assoc. Prof. 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
Prof. Liam McIlvanney, MA Hons (Glasgow), DPhil (Oxon) [Stuart Chair in Scottish Studies]
Scottish Literature and Culture Since 1707, including: Robert Burns, Scottish Vernacular Poetry, the Glasgow Novel, Ulster-Scots Poetry, Contemporary Scottish Writing, Irish-Scottish Literary Connections, Literature of the Scottish Diaspora, Scottish Crime Fiction
Dr Thomas McLean, BA (Loyola), MA (Boston College), PhD (Iowa)
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Dr Simon Overall, BA, MA (Auckland), PhD (La Trobe)
Morphology, Syntax, Historical Linguistics, Amazonian Languages, Andean Languages, Grammatical Description, Field Linguistics
Assoc. Prof. Christine Prentice, MA, PhD (Canterbury)
New Zealand Literature, Postcolonial Literatures, Cultural Theory and Cultural Studies
Dr Rochelle Simmons, MA (Auckland), PhD (Toronto)
Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Literature and Cinema, Literature and the Visual
Dr Paul Tankard, BA, DipEd, MA, PhD (Monash)
Eighteenth-Century Literature, Johnson and Boswell, Fantasy, Lewis and the Inklings, Paratextuality, Essays, Writing
Burns Fellow
Associates
Dr Josie Carter, LLB, BA (Hons), PhD (Otago)
Contemporary Fiction and Ethics, New Zealand and Postcolonial Literatures
Dr Michael Cop, BA (Sainte-Anne), MA Theology (Notre Dame Australia), MA, PhD English (Otago)
Shakespeare, Writing, Renaissance Biblical Literature, Biblical Harmonies, Milton
Honorary Dr John Hale, MA (Oxon), PhD (Edin), DipEd (Durh), LittD (Otago)
Renaissance Literature, Milton
Dr Donald Kerr, DipTchg, MA (Libr), PhD (Auckland)
Collecting and Book History, Private Presses
Dr David Large, BSc, BA (Hons), MA (Otago), Grad. Cert. Higher Education, PhD (Sydney)
Modernism, Digital Humanities, Graphic Novels, Intertextuality and Plagiarism, Annotation
Dr Keith Maslen, MA (Cantab and NZ), MLitt and DLitt (Oxford)
Bibliography
Dr Karen McLean, BA, MA, PhD (Otago)
Romantic Literature, Coleridge's Neoplatonic Philosophy, Writing
Honorary Assoc. Prof. Greg Waite, BA (Otago), MA, PhD (Toronto)
Old English, Middle English, Old Norse
Emeritus and Emerita Professors
Prof. Chris Ackerley, MA (Canterbury), PhD (Tor)
Modernism
Prof. Alistair Fox, MA (Canterbury), PhD (W Ontario)
Prof. Colin Gibson, MA (NZ), PhD (Otago)
Drama (part-time)
Prof. Jocelyn Harris, MA (Otago), PhD (London)
Eighteenth-Century Literature and Women's Literature
Prof. Lawrence Jones, MA, PhD (UCLA)
American Literature, Victorian Literature and New Zealand Studies
