Head of Programme
Associate Professor David Ciccoricco, BS Journalism (Colorado), BA Hons, PhD (Canterbury)
Narrative Theory, Digital Literature
Administration
Liz Lammers – Administrator Client Services
Lizzie Ross – Administrator Client Services
Academic staff
Dr Michael Cop, BA (Sainte-Anne), MA Theology (Notre Dame Australia), MA, PhD English (Otago)
Shakespeare, Writing, Renaissance Biblical Literature, Biblical Harmonies, Milton
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
Professor Jacob Edmond, BA Hons, PhD (Auckland)
Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Literary Theory
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
Associate Professor 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
Associate Professor Thomas McLean, BA (Loyola), MA (Boston College), PhD (Iowa)
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Associate Professor Grace Moore, MA (William & Mary), BA, PhD (Exeter)
Victorian literature, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Settler literature, Neo-Victorianism, the History of Emotions, Ecocriticism
Dr Minh Nguyen MEd TESOL (QUT), PhD (Auckland)
Pragmatics in language teaching and learning, Second language acquisition, Family language policy and heritage language maintenance, Child language learning.
Dr Simon Overall, BA, MA (Auckland), PhD (La Trobe)
Morphology, Syntax, Historical Linguistics, Amazonian Languages, Andean Languages, Grammatical Description, Field Linguistics
Associate Professor Christine Prentice, MA, PhD (Canterbury)
New Zealand Literature, Postcolonial Literatures, Cultural Theory and Cultural Studies
Associate Professor Shef Rogers, BA (Emory), MA, PhD (Chicago)
Eighteenth-Century Literature, Bibliography
Dr Rochelle Simmons, MA (Auckland), PhD (Toronto)
Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Literature and Cinema, Literature and the Visual
Associate Professor Paul Tankard, BA, DipEd, MA, PhD (Monash)
Eighteenth-Century Literature, Johnson and Boswell, Fantasy, Lewis and the Inklings, Paratextuality, Essays, Writing
Burns Fellow
Albert Belz
Email albert.belz@otago.ac.nz
Associates
Dr Josie Carter, LLB, BA (Hons), PhD (Otago)
Contemporary Fiction and Ethics, New Zealand and Postcolonial Literatures
Dr Lynley Edmeades, BA (Otago), MA Creative Writing (Queen's University Belfast), MA, PhD English (Otago)
Contemporary and avant-garde poetics, sound studies, the essay.
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 Keith Maslen, MA (Cantab and NZ), MLitt and DLitt (Oxford)
Bibliography
Professor 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
Honorary Associate Professor Greg Waite, BA (Otago), MA, PhD (Toronto)
Old English, Middle English, Old Norse
Emeritus and Emerita Professors
Emeritus Professor Chris Ackerley, MA (Canterbury), PhD (Tor)
Modernism
Emeritus Professor Alistair Fox, MA (Canterbury), PhD (W Ontario)
Emeritus Professor Colin Gibson, MA (NZ), PhD (Otago)
Drama
Emerita Professor Jocelyn Harris, MA (Otago), PhD (London)
Eighteenth-Century Literature and Women's Literature
Emeritus Professor Lawrence Jones, MA, PhD (UCLA)
American Literature, Victorian Literature and New Zealand Studies
