MANCHESTER - Key Persons
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- Professor of Arts Management and Cultural Policy
Abigail established the MA Arts Management, Policy and Practice at University of Manchester and works with colleagues in the Institute on other taught and research programmes. Her background is in sociological research on cultural policy, beginning with a PhD in Popular Culture and Society at the University of Leicester. Her research now focuses on local cultural management, participation and the different forms of knowledge and evidence used to measure and understand cultural value.
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- Departmental Assistant
- Performance Administrator
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- Head of Institute Operations and Partnerships -
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- Arts Administration Manager
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- Professor of Jewish Thought
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- Programme Support Officer
Ana Baeza Ruiz's research focuses on feminism, visual culture and museums, with an emphasis on contemporary participation and co-creation practices in public arts organisations, the role of social justice pedagogies, and histories of feminist art practices in the UK from the 1970s onwards. She has undertaken a fellowship at the Museo del Prado (Madrid), and her forthcoming monograph Modernisation and Democracy in the Twentieth-Century Art Museum in Britain: A Museum for Everyone?(Routledge) will be published in 2025. In 2023, she joined the BBC New Generation Thinkers Scheme.
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- Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion / Professor Andrew Koontz - Garboden / Head of Linguistics and English Language
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- Member of the PG Team
- Postgraduate Admissions Co - Ordinator
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- UCAE Resources Co - Ordinator
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- Creative Manchester Manager
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- Communications and Engagement Officer -
Benjamin Thomas - Communications and Engagement Officer - benjamin.thomas-2@manchester.ac.uk
Birgit Winnington is a native German speaker born in Bielefeld, Germany. She is a fully qualified Goethe examiner and work as a German language trainer for LEAP.
Her professional experience spans many years, with teaching experience at the European Commission, in business and at university.
Her motto is that learning a language should be fun. An understanding of language and culture is a real advantage in creating career opportunities.
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- Deputy Head of Collections, the Manchester Museum
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- Head of School / Professor Camden Reeves / Director of Teaching, Learning and Student Experience
- Professor
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- Curator of Egypt and Sudan, the Manchester Museum
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- British - Lebanese Writer
Carmen is a British-Lebanese writer, who grew up in Beirut and has been London-based for the last ten years. In 2022, her latest play THE CLIMBERS premiered at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, and THE MALADIES, made with the Almeida Theatre young company, premiered at The Yard Theatre.
In 2017 Carmen was a winner of the Channel 4 Playwrights' Scheme, on which she was attached to the Finborough Theatre, where her play DUBAILAND previously premiered. She was previously a member of the Orange Tree Writers Collective and the Royal Court's Playwriting Group. In 2015 her play THE HOUSE OF MY FATHER was long-listed for the Burntwood Prize.
Carmen is currently under commission to the Kiln Theatre, Almeida Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Sky Productions, and is adapting Booker Prize shortlisted novel BURNT SUGAR by Avni Doshi, for the Lot Productions.
In 2017, Carmen Nasr was a winner of the Channel 4 Playwrights' Scheme, on which she was attached to the Finborough Theatre, where her play DUBAILAND previously premiered.
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- Senior Staff Member
- People Partner
Cathleen Miller is honoured to serve as Distinguished Chair of the Humanities during her term as a Fulbright Scholar to the University of Manchester. She is a bestselling author and her biography of UN leader Nafis Sadik, Champion of Choice, was named one of the top ten biographies of 2013 by the American Library Association. She wrote Desert Flower, the life story of Somali nomad Waris Dirie, which has been translated into 55 languages and adapted as a feature film. Her memoir, The Birdhouse Chronicles, recounts her life living in rural Pennsylvania amongst the Amish, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Cathleen wears many hats at San Jose State University where she is a professor of English: she teaches creative nonfiction in their MFA program; she's the director of the Center for Literary Arts, where she has presented nationally renowned authors, including a Pulitzer Series last season with three Pulitzer Prize winners. And since 2012 Cathy's been the editor-in-chief of 150-year-old Reed Magazine. She was named a 2017 Silicon Valley Artist Laureate for her influence on the region's literary community.
Chad Campbell has published two collections of poetry, Laws & Locks (2015) and Nectarine (2021), both with Vehicule Press. A Carcanet New Poetries poet, Chad's work has been published and anthologised widely in North America and the U.K. He co-edits The Manchester Review with Professor John McAuliffe and runs the university's annual Schools Poetry Competition. Chad joined the Centre for New Writing in 2021 as a Lecturer in Creative Writing.
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- Senior Lecturer in Medieval History
Chikako teaches on the University's institution-wide language courses in Japanese. She holds a degree in Education and her specialised subject is Japanese. She has a wide range of experience in teaching: from primary school pupils to adults. She is creative in adapting the delivery method in her courses to suit the individuals studying that course.
Chloë Moss is an accomplished playwright and screenwriter. Her celebrated play This Wide Night 2008/2009 (Clean Break, Soho) won the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn prize and was subsequently produced off Broadway, starring Edie Falco. Chloë has written numerous other shows including The Gatekeeper 2012 (Royal Exchange Theatre), Fatal Light 2010/2011 (Soho Theatre), Catch 2006 (Royal Court), How Love is Spelt 2002 (Bush Theatre & New York's Summer Play Festival) and Christmas is Miles Away 2005/2006(Bush theatre and off Broadway).
Chloë Moss is an accomplished playwright and screenwriter. She has written extensively for theatre and television, while she is currently working on a teen drama for CBBC.
Christina taught modern foreign languages in FE before joining the University of Liverpool in 2017 and the University of Manchester in 2024. Her professional interests include the improvement of language teaching; the education and professional development of teachers; and the refinement of theory and method in language teaching. Christina's research examines curriculum improvement and pedagogy in modern languages, and the nature of educational reform.
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- Honorary Research Fellows
Professor Christopher Pressler is University Librarian and Director of The John Rylands Library. He has also held the positions of University Librarian and Director of the Irish Modern Archives Research Centre at Dublin City University, University Librarian of the University of London, University Librarian of the University of Nottingham and Librarian, Dartington College of Arts.
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- Creative Manchester Postdoctoral Research Associate ( AHRC Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre )
Postdoctoral Research Associate supporting the Cultural Industries Policy and Evidence Centre and Creative Manchester. Research exploring the role of place within the institutional logics of the cultural sector. Interested in the relationships between cultural organisations located in cities and their counterparts located in the satellite towns on their peripheries. Previously postdoctoral fellow at the University of Leeds and Research Associate with the Centre for Cultural Value.
Claire Walker - Research Support Officer - claire.walker-2@manchester.ac.uk / 0161 275 8084 (Ext. 58084)
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- Compliance and Resources Support
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- Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Art
Cordelia is an expert on Medieval and Renaissance art with a specific emphasis on female patronage, the representation of dress, and the visual culture of stigmata, which map onto a wider research field investigating the religious body. She was awarded her PhD from the University of Warwick and has taught in higher education for over twenty-five years. She has served twice as head of department (2015-2018 and 2020-2023). She is currently co-editor of Medieval Clothing and Textiles.
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- Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries
Dani has over a decade's experience of researching creative labour. Through adopting an historical materialist approach, her work examines the relationship between art making, labour and capitalism (including social class). She has widely published (and spoken) on this subject, including her monograph Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism (Bloomsbury 2019) and The Routledge Companion to Art and Capitalism (editor, forthcoming).
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- Director of Culture and Creative Industries for Manchester City Council
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- Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries
Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries. He has over a decade of research experience ranging across cultural policy, the sociology of culture, culture-led regeneration, and inequality in the creative economy. He is currently part of the AHRC funded Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre, as well as researching social class and television production; the value of culture and heritage; creative higher education; and diversity, skills and the future of the creative workforce.
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- Member of the UG Team
- Admissions Assistant
Dorit has been teaching German on the institution-wide course programme since 2009 and on the degree programme since 2020. She is the Goethe Exam Officer and director of the Goethe Exam Centre Manchester. She has a Master's degree in German, English and Scandinavian philology from the University of Vienna and used to teach at schools both in Austria and England. She has a particular interest in communicative teaching, including games to enhance learning. Outside work her interests include dogs and dog-sledding, music, motorbikes, and keeping fit.
Aida was trained as a painter and graduated with a BSc in Industrial Design from the Alzahra University of Tehran. She relocated to Sweden in 2000, where she worked in theatre and museum curation and exhibited her paintings in Sweden and Germany. A book of her poetry, Forbidden Peace, was published in Stockholm in 2003. She moved to the UK in 2007 to do her Master of Arts degree in Theatre Studies at the University of Manchester, then a PhD there (2008-2012) in Art History, entitled ‘The Reception of Surrealism in Iranian Art and Literature'. She has published a number of scholarly articles for peer-reviewed academic journals and one for a Festschrift. Before the pandemic, she convened a successful international conference ‘Modern Iranian Art and Architecture in the Shadow of the Classical Persian Past' at the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester. She currently teaches Persian at the University of Manchester.
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- Senior Lecturer in Romanticism
Research specialisms: Ancient Greek History (especially concerning the city of Corinth), Ancient Greek and Roman weaponry and armour.
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- Honorary Research Fellow / Emeritus Staff
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- Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art
Dr Alice Correia is a curator and art historian. She co-curated the major exhibition A Tall Order!: Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s at Touchstones, Rochdale Feb-May, 2023. Her edited anthology, What is Black Art? Writings on artists of African, Asian and Caribbean Heritage in Britain, 1981-1989, was published by Penguin in 2022.
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- Senior Lecturer in Applied Theatre and Contemporary Performance
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- Lecturer in American Literature
Ana is Senior Language Tutor for Spanish at the Institution Wide Language Programme where she teaches general Spanish, Medical Spanish and translation. Ana did her BA and MA (Specialized Translation) at the University of Valladolid, Spain. She holds an MSc in Machine Translation from UMIST and at the University of Manchester she completed a PhD on the connection between translation, Machine Translation, Computer Aided Translation, Computer Assisted Language Learning and language teaching/learning.
Ana researches and publishes in the fields of technology-enhanced language learning, innovative use of educational tools and the integration of technology for blended/distance learning. Ana was nominated Most Inspiring Lecturer at the STAR Manchester Student Union Teaching Awards 2017. In her spare time she enjoys sketching, painting and trekking.
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- Senior Lecturer in World Literatures
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- Lecturer in Ancient History / Research
Research specialisms: The history of the Roman Empire, Roman provincial history (especially Britain and Spain), the Roman army in Roman and Visigothic periods, early Christianity.
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- Lecturer in American History
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- Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries
Andrew has worked in the creative industries for over twenty years. His research explores the representation, theory and practice of creative production. During his PhD (in art history and visual cultures at Manchester) he formed a production company with two fellow researchers. Their filmmaking, for cultural organisations across the UK, specialises in archival research, documenting cultural practices, and co-producing film as a means of developing audiences and participation with collections and places.
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- Lecturer in Theatre Practice
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- Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Culture
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- Lecturer in European Medieval Art
Anne studied art history at Manchester for her BA, MA and PhD (2007). Her PhD on the discourses underpinning European medieval art has prompted research in several directions including interdisciplinary collaborations on medieval medicine in Europe and a main focus on images in manuscripts, especially the visually rich European medieval manuscripts in the John Rylands Library where she is thrilled to be able to teach some of her undergraduate classes.
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- Senior Lecturer in Art History
Anthony is a historian of early modern architecture in France and England. He received his PhD from Columbia University and has held teaching and research posts at Wesleyan University, Vassar College, and Oxford University. His research focuses on architectural design and its relation to scientific and technical knowledge. He is currently pursuing two projects, one on cartography and landscape and the other on the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.
Research specialisms: Papyrology, epistolography, textual criticism, Xenophon
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- Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture
Ashley specializes in critical media studies, visual rhetorical criticism, and digital cultural analyses, integrating feminist science and technology studies with Black Feminist theory. Her research explores how new media technologies and socio-technical systems shape social influence, focusing on digital extremist cultures like the Manosphere, Far Right, #Trad, and QAnon. She examines their propaganda, gendered communication, and digital media circulation. Ashley has worked at Swansea University and Dublin City University, and is an Associate Editor at Perspectives on Terrorism.
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- Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies
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- Senior Lecturer of History and Library & Archive Studies
Benjamin Wiggins is Senior Lecturer of History and Library & Archive Studies. He is the author of Calculating Race: Racial Discrimination in Risk Assessment (2020) and History and Technology: Twenty-First Century Methods for Researching the Past (2025)-both published by Oxford University Press. He has been a PI on awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice), and the National Science Foundation.
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- Lecturer in Cultural Policy and Governance
Biyun has a PhD in Cultural Policy and Arts Management from The Ohio State University and a MA in Public Policy from King's College London. Her research draws on knowledge from multiple disciplines including public policy, international relations, history, and management. She uses cultural policy as a lens to investigate issues in broader fields such as arts organisation governance, creative industries, cultural diplomacy, and soft power.
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- Academic Staff Member
- Lecturer in Theatre and Performance
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- Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries
Catherine has a MA in English Literary Culture and a PhD in Tourism Studies from the University of Central Lancashire. A practitioner in regional and national museum learning programmes for over 15 years, Catherine has undertaken project consultancy for UK and European heritage and education projects. Her research interests and practice relate to experiential learning, placemaking and psychologised readings of visitor experience in dissonant/difficult heritage environments.
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- Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory
Charlie writes about the history and theory of modern and contemporary art. His book Radical Picasso: The Use Value of Genius (University of California Press, 2021) deconstructs the Picasso myth, refigures cubism and surrealism, and as such rethinks the history of modernism. He has published widely on surrealism, including most recently ‘Surrealism's Homophobia', October 173, 2020. His current research deals with the problem of magic in modern and contemporary art.
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- Lecturer in English Literature
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- Lecturer in Digital Humanities ( Contemporary Art and Digital Culture )
Claire teaches in the areas of Digital Humanities and Art History, and is interested in digital cultural heritage, visual methods, mapping, contemporary art and ‘ways of seeing' using new technologies. Claire previously taught at King's College London, and carried out postdoctoral research using visual research methods to engage with the history of France's penal colonies. She gained her PhD in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths and is also a digital artist.
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- Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature
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- Senior Lecturer in Art History
Research specialisms: Augustan and post-Augustan poetry.
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- Senior Lecturer in French Studies and European Screen Studies
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- Senior Lecturer in American History
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- Academic Staff Member
- Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies
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- Academic Staff Member
- Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies
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- Lecturer in Classical Archaeology / Research
Research specialisms: relationship between society, technology, and climate in the (ancient) Mediterranean and Australia, archaeological science/geoarchaeology, historical solutions to contemporary problems.
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Research specialisms: Archaeology, Obsidian, Lithics, Material Culture studies.
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- Lecturer in Modern Art History
- Specialist
Emilia is a specialist in modern and contemporary art, with an emphasis on South Asian artists and their diaspora, and on critical ecologies. Her research addresses questions of abstraction, materialisms, feminism, ecocriticism, and postcolonialism. She is writing two book projects: the first concerns plants, humans and futurities in art; the second is about artist Simryn Gill. She is the author of Art and Emergency: Modernism in Twentieth Century India (IB Tauris, 2018).
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- Senior Lecturer in Museology and ICP Director
Emma has worked as a curator of ethnography and decorative arts for nearly 20 years, specialising in South Asia, the Himalaya and Tibet. She is leading a new research network called Object Lessons from Tibet and the Himalaya, which aims to bring researchers and museums from across Europe together with members of the Tibetan diaspora for the purpose of sharing and collaborating on Tibet and Himalaya collections-based research.
Emma writes and teaches about nineteenth-century British art, with a focus on the intersections between Victorian art and science; issues of gender and sexuality; and the occult. Of particular interest is artists' engagement with scientific ideas about reality, experience, embodiment, and environment. Emma is currently writing a book on the spiritualist art and scientific influences of Evelyn De Morgan.
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- Senior Staff Member
- Head of Drama & Film and Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies
- Head of Drama and Film / Professor Larissa Fast / Head of Humanitarian Conflict and Response Institute ( HCRI )
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- Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature
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- Honorary Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
Canadian author Geoff Ryman has won 15 awards for his stories and ten books, many of which are science fiction. His novel Air (2005), won a John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the James W Tiptree Memorial Award, the Canadian Sunburst Award and the British Science Fiction Association Award. It was also listed in The Guardian's series ‘1000 Novels You Must Read'.
Dr Geoff Ryman is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing. He has won 15 awards for his books and stories. Geoff also helped lead the UK government onto the web, starting a web design team at the Central Office of Information in 1994.
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- Lecturer in Medieval English
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- Lecturer in Digital Humanities
Giulia is Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Manchester. Her current research focuses on the investigation of cultures and identities in texts, using NLP and machine learning to examine represented space and encoded sentiments. As an applied linguist, she is interested in the mechanisms by which humans process and understand language and literature, and in the ways linguistic data can be explored computationally.
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- Senior Lecturer in 19th Century American Literature
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- Co - Director
- Co - Director of the Centre for New Writing
- Lecturer in Creative Writing
- Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
- Writer
Dr H. Gareth Gavin is a fiction writer whose work also moves between the creative and the critical and often draws on ongoing interests in queer and trans theory.
Gareth is the author of a monograph on the encounter between early twentieth century literature and silent film, and of an exuberant, experimental novel, Midland (2014), which was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize.
Gareth's second novel, Never Was: A Novel Without A World, was published by Cipher Press in 2023. He also writes short fiction: a story called 'Home Death' was longlisted for the 2019/2020 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize.
Gareth joined the Centre for New Writing in 2017, the Centre's tenth anniversary year.
Gareth Gavin is a Co-Director of the Centre for New Writing. Gareth's experimental novel Midland / A Novel Out of Time was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2015.
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- Senior Lecturer in English Literature
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- Lecturer in Egyptology / Research
Research specialisms: transmission and social context of Middle and New Kingdom literature, material philology of Egyptian text, oral context of the written.
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- Academic Staff Member
- Senior Lecturer in Archaeology / Research
Research specialisms: Bronze Age Aegean, island studies, quantitative analysis of pottery and the use of ceramics.
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- Lecturer in English Literature
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- Senior Lecturer in American Studies
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- Senior Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries
James's research focus is on the history and heritage of the cultural industries, including film, television, festivals, and film and media archives. He principally investigates the ways in which popular culture is archived and used in knowledge production and archival gaps and silences. He is the co-editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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- Lecturer in Eighteenth - Century English Literature
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- Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval Literature
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- Paisant - Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing
- Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory & Creative Writing
I am Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing in the Department of English, American Studies, and Creative Writing.
I am alumnus of the University of Oxford, from which I earned a doctorate in Medieval and Modern Languages, having also studied at the École normale supérieure (UIm) in France and at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, my home country.
I'm the author of Thé tre dialectique postcolonial (Classiques Garnier), and of Engagements with Aimé Césaire (Oxford University Press, 2023), which is a philosophical study of poetry from the perspective of African metaphysics. I'm also the author of two volumes of poetry - Thinking with Trees (winner of the Poetry category of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature) and Self-Portrait as Othello, both published by Carcanet Press.
My creative nonfiction book Scanning the Bush will be published by Hutchinson Heinemann in 2024. I've twice been guest editor of special issues of scholarly journals: Performing Black Futures and Face à l'histoire coloniale (the latter co-edited with Clare Finburgh Delijani), for parallax and Thé tre/Publi c respectively. My work has also resulted in numerous peer-reviewed articles in scholarly journals and in creative/critical writings for various magazines, including Granta.
Jason Allen-Paisant is a Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing. He is the author of Thé tre dialectique postcolonial (Classiques Garnier), and of Engagements with Aimé Césaire (Oxford University Press, 2023), and of two volumes of poetry - Thinking with Trees and Self-Portrait as Othello, both published by Carcanet Press.
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- Senior Lecturer in Heritage Studies
Jenna is an experienced curator and producer, working in the areas of heritage, arts, participation, public space, social movements and activism. She is passionate about embedding inclusive practices and co-production methods in the arts and heritage sectors. She has an MA and PhD in Art History and Visual Studies from The University of Manchester. Jenna is also the Founder and Creative Director of Digital Women's Archive North - a Manchester-based feminist arts and heritage organisation addressing social inequalities through creative archiving and documentation.
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- Lecturer in Twentieth Century American History and Culture
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- Academic Staff Member
- Senior Lecturer in Classical Philosophy / SALC Associate Director for Assessment / Research
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- Lecturer in 20th Century American Literature and Culture
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- Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth - Century Literature and Digital Humanities
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- Lecturer in Screen Studies
Research specialisms: Latin Literature and Textual Criticism, Roman and Hellenistic History.
Research specialisms: Archaeology, archaeological textiles.
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- Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literatures in English
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- Lecturer in Greek and Latin Language
Research specialisms: Greek and Latin languages and literature, Greek and Roman history.
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- Academic Staff Member
- Lecturer in Classical Literature and Culture / Research
Research specialisms: Latin literature (esp. Statius), intertextuality (esp. in Flavian literature), ancient epistolography.
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- Lecturer in Restoration and Eighteenth - Century Literature
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- Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance
Research specialisms: Lycophron's Alexandra, Hellenistic poetry and Aesthetics, Ancient Greek Literature, visuality, gender expression and performance.
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- Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology
Research specialisms: Egyptian tomb architecture and decoration, Middle Kingdom Theban necropolis (esp. tomb distribution).
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- Director
- Senior Lecturer
- Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Co - Director of the Centre for New Writing
Dr Kaye Mitchell is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, and the Director of the Centre. Her interests are in modern and contemporary literature, literary theory, gender and sexuality studies, and experimental writing by women.
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- Lecturer in Literature and Environmental Justice
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- Affiliated Staff Member
- Senior Lecturer in International History
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- Senior Lecturer in Museology
Kostas has a MA and PhD in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester and a first degree in History and Archaeology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His research interests cross the fields of museology, archaeology, cultural heritage, and digital media. His expertise lies in the area of Digital Heritage that includes the theory and practice of digital technology in museums, galleries and heritage sites.
Research Specialisms: Greek language and linguistics.
Research Specialisms: Classical and Hellenistic Greek History; Numismatics.
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- Senior Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries
Leandro started his career in Brazil as a professor and policy advisor in Creative Industries and Economy of Culture, creating and leading the most representative policy-oriented academic centre on CCIs. In the past years, he has been working in academic positions and as board member in policy institutions in Spain, France and the UK. His research interests are Culture and Socioeconomic Development, Cultural Policy and Multidimensional Impact of Arts.
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- Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature
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- Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities ( Digital Methods and History )
Luca is interested in analysing and questioning data in historical and humanistic inquiry. He holds PhD in History from the European University Institute in Florence, having previously studied at Heidelberg and Paris. Before moving to Manchester, where he co-directs the Centre for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture, Luca spent three years at Stanford University. His work combines archival research, computational methods, and data visualisation to study spatial history, intellectual history, and the visual representation of weather and climate.
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- Lecturer in Creative Writing
Luke Brown is the author of the novels My Biggest Lie (2014), and Theft (2020), and has had short fiction published in the White Review, Mal, London Magazine and The Fence.
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- Lecturer in Contemporary Art
Luke's research and teaching focus on the history and theory of late 20th and early 21st-century art in the UK, Europe, the USA and Brazil, specialising in postconceptual contemporary art and its historical genealogy. His other research interests include: art theory and philosophical aesthetics, critical theory and the history and theory of photography (with a focus on photoconceptualism and its legacies). He holds a BA from the University of Cambridge and an MA and PhD from Middlesex University (Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy/History of Art and Design).
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- Professor and Chair in Digital Education
Mairéad has been working at the forefront of digital innovation in education for 25 years. Mairéad holds a Ph.D. in History from McMaster University and an MA in European Studies from KU Leuven. Her first book, Visions of Ireland (Peter Lang, 2015), is on modern media as a vehicle for language revival. She is a Research Fellow at the AI Institute for Adult Education and Online Learning (AI-ALOE), and her second book is entitled Generative AI and Education (Springer, 2024).
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- Director of Tate ( Formerly Director of the Whitworth, University of Manchester and Manchester City Galleries )
Maria succeeded Sir Nicholas Serota as Director of Tate in June 2017. Previously, as Director of The Whitworth and Manchester City Galleries, she was responsible for the artistic and strategic vision for each gallery. Maria was also Director of Culture for Manchester City Council. In 2014 Maria was appointed as a board member of Arts Council England and in June 2015 she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the arts.
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- Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature
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- Artist and Researcher from Brazil
- Research Associate ( Creative Adaptive Solutions to Treescapes of Rivers Project )
Marilene Ribeiro is an award-winning visual artist and researcher from Brazil. Her practice is focused on interdisciplinary endeavours, bringing together photography, video, intervention and collaboration, with a special interest in the political agency of photography and in the role of image-based media in society. Her projects tackle the environmental and the Human Rights agendas, from a decolonial perspective from the Global South.
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- Academic Staff Member
- Reader in Ancient History ( Roman ) Research
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- Senior Lecturer in 20th Century American Literature
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- Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature
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- Senior Lecturer in American History
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- Director of the Horniman Museum and Gardens
Nick was appointed Director of the Manchester Museum in March 2006. He has focused the Manchester Museum mission on promoting understanding between cultures and working towards a sustainable world and has overseen the refurbishment of most of the Museum's permanent galleries. He led the Museum's major capital project to build a new temporary exhibition space and a permanent gallery on South Asia in partnership with the British Museum. In 2018 Nick was appointed Director of the Horniman Museum and Gardens.
Research specialisms: Mesolithic Britain and Europe, European Prehistory, Hunter-Gatherer archaeology, Human-Animal relationships, Zooarchaeology and Social Zooarchaeology.
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- Senior Lecturer in Egyptology / Research
Research specialisms: Egyptian archaeology and the material culture of New Kingdom Egypt, with emphasis on ceramics and craft production.
Research specialisms: Ancient philosophy, Greek and Latin language and literature, the intellectual history of the ancient world.
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- Senior Lecturer in 18th Century Literature and Culture
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- Director of the University Language Centre 's LEAP
Orieb is the Director of the University Language Centre's LEAP programmes which involve the organisation and delivery of the courses in 14 different languages - ranging from Arabic to Urdu. Orieb is a recipient of the University Exceptional Performance Award in recognition of her contribution, work and commitment to the University.
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- Lecturer in Cultural Industries
I am Lecturer in Arts Management, Policy and Practice and a current PhD student at Goldsmiths, University of London in the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies department. My research explores articulations of feminist and queer British South Asian identity on social media platforms. I completed my Masters degree at Goldsmiths in Film and the Audio-visual and my undergraduate in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Liverpool.
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- Academic Staff Member
- Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance
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- Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries
Roaa Ali is a Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries. She is an interdisciplinary researcher focusing on race and diversity in the Creative and Cultural Industries (CCIs). Roaa researches, teaches and writes on issues of inequality, anti-racism, and the politics of cultural production CCIs. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Polycultural Institute (Chicago). Her monograph, The Cultural production of Otherness: Contemporary Arab American Drama is forthcoming in 2024.
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- Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature and Culture
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- Lecturer in Television and Creative Industries
Research specialisms: papyrology, Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Egypt, legal and illegal antiquities market (Egyptian and other antiquities).
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- Senior Lecturer in Classics / MA Programme Director / Research
Research specialisms: Greek and Roman historiography (especially Livy), Augustan literature, Roman national identity and imperial ideology, ancient epistolography.
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- Lecturer in Arts Management and Cultural Policy
Ryan is an Arts Management and Cultural Policy Lecturer, specialising in community arts and cultural policy. He holds a PhD and MA in community music from York St John University. As a practitioner, Ryan has experience managing and delivering community music programmes across various contexts and demographics. His research interests concern funding, cultural policy, cultural value, the role of community arts in the 21st century, working conditions of socially engaged and community artists, activism, social justice, and cultural democracy.
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- Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture
Sam is a media scholar. His research interests include navigational technologies, sensing and the sensor society, algorithmic decision-making, automotive cultures, and mobile play. He completed his PhD on protest mapping at the University of Warwick, and previously worked in SFB1187 Media of Cooperation at the University of Siegen, Germany. He has researched the phenomenon of autonomous driving since 2017, and has a forthcoming monograph on the subject with Palgrave.
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- Academic Staff Member
- Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies
Sandra has an interdisciplinary background in German and English as a foreign language teaching. She has a master's degree from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and holds a Doctorate in Education from Newcastle University. She completed her teacher training in Germany and has taught in the secondary school and FE sector, on international HE foundation programmes, and at under-and postgraduate levels at different universities in the UK. She has a particular interest in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and has been involved in research projects on digital materials creation and Global Citizenship Education.
Sandra is a senior language tutor in Spanish and co-convenor of the Special Interest Group in Less-widely Taught Languages (LWTLs). Sandra holds a degree in Philology and Languages, an MA in Applied Linguistics in TEFL, an MA in Translation Studies, a PhD in Language Education and a PGCert in HE from The University of Manchester. Her interests lie in the sustainability of LWTLs, the use of technology in language teaching and autonomous learning. She enjoys foreign films and playing tennis.
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- Lecturer in Theatre Studies
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- Senior Staff Member
- Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion / Professor Andrew Koontz - Garboden / Head of Linguistics and English Language
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- Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture
Shuaishuai holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam. His research centres on the intersection of platform studies, critical algorithm studies, and queer media. He is committed to illuminating marginalized perspectives and underrepresented groups in algorithmic social media. Additionally, he studies how algorithms transform digital cultures and economies amid the ever-changing landscape of emerging digital platforms, including microbloging, livestreaming, and short-form videos.
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- Academic Staff Member
- Lecturer in Film Studies
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- Senior Lecturer in Drama and Arts Management
Simon has managed and evaluated a number of arts and education projects across the UK and Europe. He has a BA in Modern Languages (Nottingham), MA in Text and Performance Studies (King's College London / Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), and a PhD in Drama (Royal Holloway University of London). His research interests include the arts in education, engagements between contemporary science and the arts, activist performance and approaches to arts evaluation.
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- Lecturer in Film Practice
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- Senior Lecturer in World Literatures in English
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- Lecturer in Library and Archive Studies
Tabitha's expertise is in libraries and print history. She teaches for and has helped develop the Library And Archive Studies MA. She researches representation of marginalised voices in catalogue records, the history of Dante in print, the history of classification, and advanced imaging of heritage objects, and is committed to widening access to special collections. She has a PhD in Renaissance studies from Oxford University, where she was junior research fellow, and MA in librarianship at UCL.
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- Affiliated Staff Member
- Senior Lecturer in American History
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- Senior Lecturer in Classics / Research
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- Senior Lecturer in Art History
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- Senior Lecturer in Drama and Screen Studies
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- Co - Ordinator, Classics for All
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- Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture
Łukasz (he/him) specializes in critical and cultural studies of digital media at the intersections of gender, sexuality, and transnationalism with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe, especially Poland. He previously worked at the University of Sheffield, London School of Economics and Political Science, and University of Antwerp. He is a member of editorial boards at the International Journal of Cultural Studies, International Journal of Communication, and Communication, Culture & Critique.
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- Head of Finance / Professor Ed Wouk / Head of Art History and Cultural Practice
- Professor of Art History
Edward is active as a scholar, teacher, and curator of early modern art. At Manchester, he lectures at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels on a wide range of course units, from an introductory survey entitled Ice Age to Baroque to a set of Renaissance course units devoted to Northern, Italian and global perspectives, as well as seminars on topics including the history of printmaking, seventeenth-century Dutch painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and artistic theory.
With studies in Languages, Literature and Foreign Civilisations (Master's Degree), Elizabeth started teaching for the University of Manchester in 2001 and was nominated in the 2013 Manchester Teaching Award organised by the Students' Union for Best Humanities Lecturer. She is a Language Tutor in French and has taught and developed French Business Courses, French Medical Courses and French General Courses. She is a certified examiner for the CCI Paris Ile-de-France oral exam and holds a PGCert in Higher Education from the University of Manchester.
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- Teaching and Learning Officer
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- Departmental Administrator
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- Head of Teaching, Learning and Student Experienc
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- Director of the Manchester Museum and Honorary Professor of Heritage Futures
Esme was appointed Director of Manchester Museum in April 2018 and is the first woman to hold that position in its 127-year history. Prior to this, she was Head of Learning and Engagement at Manchester Museum and the Whitworth. She holds an MA in French Revolutionary Culture and Theory. In 2016-17 she was a Fellow on the Clore Cultural Leadership programme. Esme is the Strategic Lead (culture) for Age-Friendly Manchester and the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub. She is co-curator of the Arts, Health and Social change programme the World Health Congress 2019-20.
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- Teaching and Learning Manager
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- Senior Staff Member
- Head of University Centre for Academic English ( UCAE )
Gaëlle is a Senior Language Tutor in charge of the coordination of French courses in LEAP.
Originally from Nantes, Gaëlle holds a Licence (B.A.) in English from the University of Poitiers, a Master's in teaching French as a Foreign Language from the University of Grenoble, and gained her Qualified Teacher Status from the Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research in London. Gaëlle also holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education with The University of Manchester. She has experience in the Secondary and Further Education sectors in Canada, Hungary and England. Gaëlle was nominated for the Outstanding Teaching Award in 2020-21.
Her interests lie in teaching specialised French (business, tourism and medical) and enhancing the employability of French-speaking students.
She is also interested in translation, having worked on various projects funded by the European Union, including the translation of a book for a visual arts organisation Fabrica, based in Brighton.
In her spare time, she enjoys running, swimming, hiking and cooking.
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- Programme Support Officer
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- Lecturer in Social Anthropology
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- Allimes - Music Technician
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- Support & Experience Co - Ordinator
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- Communications and Engagement Coordinator -
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- Research Associate ( Creative Adaptive Solutions to Treescapes of Rivers Project )
Huw Wahl is a filmmaker whose work has been described as using the form-giving, material qualities of moving image to unearth the importance of creative action and its transformative potential. He is broadly interested in documentary, yet feels good work comes from intuition, imagination and the poetry of the process, rather than the technics of truth or fact. To quote the poet Stephen Watts, 'Film is prosaic poetry only / Because poetry is essentially / Prosaic : what is quotidian still is / The stuff of our daily bread.'
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- Member of the UG Team
- Undergraduate Admissions Administrator
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- Senior Staff Member
- Director of School Operations
- Head of School Operations -
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- Member of the PG Team
- Admissions Assistant
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- Senior Communications and Engagement Officer -
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- Strategic Lead for Creative Health, NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care / Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Justyna has been with the Language Centre since 2006 where she is a Language Tutor in Polish. She holds a degree in Polish Language and Literature (Poznań) and a PhD in Polish and Drama Studies (Manchester). Outside teaching, she has recently worked on some theatre-related translations. In her spare time she loves walking and cooking plant-based food.
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- Programme Support Officer
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- Technical Services and Buildings Manager
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- Communications and Engagement Coordinator -
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- Member of the Pre - Sessional English Admissions Team
- Admissions Officer
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- Member of the UG Team
- Undergraduate Admissions Co - Ordinator
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- Programme Manager, Legacies of Enslavement Project, the Guardian
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- Knowledge and Information Management Specialist
- Lecturer in Library and Archives Studies
Kenneth is a Knowledge and Information Management Specialist and Scholar. His area of specialization are Archives, Records Management, and Information Governance and Compliance. He has previously taught in two higher institutions in Nigeria and currently contributing to the development of the MA programme in Library and Archives Studies at the University of Manchester. Kenneth is interested in research around Archives and Records Management and Information Governance good practices; Computational Archiving; Digital Preservation; AI in Libraries; and Health Librarianship.
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- Member of the PG Team
- Postgraduate Admissions Administrator
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- Senior Staff Member
- School Operations Manager
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- Head of Drama and Film / Professor Larissa Fast / Head of Humanitarian Conflict and Response Institute ( HCRI )
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- Member of the UG Team
- Admissions Assistant
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- Member of the UG Team
- Admissions Assistant
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- Research Associate ( Port Sunlight Village Trust KTP Project )
Matthew's research interest lies in the impact of heritage narratives on the socio-cultural landscape of place. His MA (Heritage Studies, University of Manchester) dissertation, which critically analysed problematic discourse related to victims of the 1612 Lancashire Witch Trials, received the 2021 Gill Wright Prize. He is currently leading a Knowledge Transfer Partnerships project helping Port Sunlight Village Trust transform how visitors, residents, and staff engage with the site's colonial links.
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- Honorary Professor of Literature and Performance
Mayte teaches on the University's institution-wide language courses in Spanish and she has taught in the Centre since 2001. Her work and studies over the years have concentrated on developing her love for teaching Spanish, in the classroom and online or computer aided language learning. The dissertation she wrote for her M.Ed., titled "Exploring the integration of virtual and face to face learning in Higher education ", helped me to introduce it in her classes, and since then she has been in close collaboration with other tutors and course managers to improve the courses in an effect to help a more diverse group of students.
Through her work, studies and research she wrote "On Course Spanish"(with Sandra Truscott and John Morley as editors). She enjoys the challenge of creating accessible material for the different needs related vocabulary, such as Spanish for specific purposes or Spanish for the different students´ needs (British Airways, Engineering, Business and Medical students, among others).
She has worked in many institutions including:
Salford University (International Training Centre, preparing students for Spanish for specific purposes and DELE diploma);
Central College in Manchester (preparing students for GCSE and A´level);
"Agrupación de Lengua y cultura Españolas" (Teaching children and adults to prepare them for the DELE exams);
The University of Manchester (Teaching Spanish at all levels for the LEAP department and teaching on the European Studies Course for the Medical school.)
Mercè teaches on the University's institution-wide language courses in Spanish. Originally from Barcelona, Mercè holds a degree in Politics and Contemporary History, a Masters degree in International Business and another Masters in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language. She has a particular interest in languages and cultures and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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- Senior Staff Member
- Head of Finance / Professor Ed Wouk / Head of Art History and Cultural Practice
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- Member of the UG Team
- Admissions Assistant
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- Postgraduate Research Administrator ( Admissions ) Humanities Doctoral Academy
Motoi has both his undergraduate and master's degree's from the University of Niigata, Japan and a PGCE from the University of Central Lancashire. He prides himself in using as little English as possible in his lessons and always being rated well on his teaching in the end of year students' questionnaire! Outside of work he loves trees, wildlife and skiing.
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- Lecturer in Screenwriting
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- Journalist
- Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
Horatio Clare is an author and journalist. He has published a dozen books for children and adults, ranging from memoir and travel to short stories and novellas, including Running for the Hills (Somerset Maugham Award), A Single Swallow, Down to the Sea in Ships (Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year), Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot (Branford Boase Best Debut Children's Book Award) and Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North (shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year).
Horatio is a regular broadcaster to BBC Radio, notably From Our Own Correspondent (Radio 4) and the presenter of the Sound Walks series (Radio 3). He writes on travel for The Financial Times and on books for The Spectator; his features appear in The Observer, The Daily Telegraph and Conde Nast Traveller, where he is a Contributing Editor.
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- Lecturer in Screenwriting
Jonathan Hourigan is a screenwriter, script consultant and educator. He joined the Centre for New Writing in September 2022 as Programme Director for MA Screenwriting.
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- Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting
Tim Price joined the Centre for New Writing in 2015 to teach on our new Screenwriting MA. He is a screenwriter and playwright, with television credits on some of the largest, longest running series including Eastenders, Holby City, Casualty and Doctors.
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- Lecturer in Creative Writing
- Lecturer in Creative Writing ( Fiction )
Beth Underdown was born in Rochdale in 1987. Her debut novel, The Witchfinder's Sister, based on the witch-hunts orchestrated by Matthew Hopkins in seventeenth-century Essex, was published in 2017, won the HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown and was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick. Her second novel, The Key in the Lock, was published in 2022.
‘Beth Underdown is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing. She is the author of two historical novels: The Witchfinder's Sister (2017) and The Key in the Lock (2022).
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- Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
- Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing ( Poetry )
Frances Leviston has published two collections of poetry, Public Dream (2007) and Disinformation (2015), both with Picador. She has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and the BBC National Short Story Award. Her first collection of short stories is forthcoming. Frances joined the Centre for New Writing in 2016 as a Lecturer in Creative Writing.
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- Senior Lecturer
- Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
Vona Groarke is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing. She joined the Creative Writing team in 2007 after graduating from Trinity College, Dublin and previously worked in the United States and Norway.
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- Lecturer in American Film Studies
Narae is a Language Tutor in Korean who has been teaching at the University level since 2018. She has a particular interest in corpus-based language teaching, AI-assisted language learning, and discourse analysis.
Narae completed her MA in Korean Education as a Foreign Language at Yonsei University and holds an MSc in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Korean Studies.
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- Communications and Engagement Coordinator -
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- Member of the UG Team
- Admissions Assistant
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- Departmental Administrator
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- Senior Lecturer in Medieval History
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- Head of Modern Languages and Cultures / Professor Peter Liddell / Head of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology ( CAHAE )
- Professor
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- Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis
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- Professor of Film and German Studies
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- Professor of Applied and Social Theatre
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- Chairman in Drama, Vice - Dean for Research ( Humanities )
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- Professor Emerita in History of Art
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- Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology
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- Academic Staff Member
- Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance
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- Professor Emeritus of Ancient History
Research specialisms: Greek social and legal history, Attic orators (especially Lysias).
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- Emeritus Professor of Educational Theatre
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- Hulme Professor of Latin / Research
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- Professor in 20th Century Literature
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- Professor of Ancient History / UG Programme Director / Research
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- Affiliated Staff Member
- Professor of 20th Century Literature and Culture
- Professor of Modern Literature
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- Professor in English Literature
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- Professor of Medieval and Medievalism Studies
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- Professor in 20th Century American Literature
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- Professor of American Studies
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- Emeritus Professor of Anglo - Saxon Culture
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- Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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- Academic Staff Member
- Professor of Archaeology and Pedagogy / University Lead for Academic Development / Research
Research specialisms: The theory and philosophy of archaeology, the archaeology of the Mesolithic-Neolithic in Britain and Europe.
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- Professor in Creative Writing
- Professor of American Literature and Creative Writing and Former Co - Director of the Centre
Ian McGuire co-founded the Centre for New Writing with John McAuliffe in 2007 and co-directed the Centre with John until 2017.
He is the author of three novels, Incredible Bodies (2006), The North Water (2016) and The Abstainer (2020), and one critical monograph, Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism (2015).
Professor of American Literature and Creative Writing and former Co-Director of the Centre.
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- Professor of American Studies
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- Emeritus Professor of English Literature
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- Professor of Media and Cultural Studies
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- Emeritus Professor of Cultural Sociology
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- Professor of Creative Writing / Honorary and Associate Staff
- Professor of New Writing at the Centre for New Writing
Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England, and adopted by Pentecostal parents who brought her up in the nearby mill-town of Accrington. After reading English at Oxford University she wrote her first novel, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, when she was 23. It was published a year later in 1985.
Since then, she has published more than a dozen books including the memoir 'Why be happy when you could be normal?' and 'The Daylight Gate', and has won various awards around the world for her fiction and adaptations, including the Whitbread Prize, UK, and the Prix d'argent, Cannes Film Festival.
In 2006 Jeanette Winterson was awarded an OBE for services to literature. She writes regularly for various UK newspapers, especially The Times and The Guardian. She was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester in September 2012.
In 2018, she was awarded a CBE for services to literature.
Jeanette Winterson is the Professor of New Writing at the Centre for New Writing. She wrote her first novel, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, when she was 23 and since then has published more than a dozen books.
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- Professor of English Literature and Culture
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- Professor of Modern Literature and Creative Writing and Director of Creative
John McAuliffe is Reader in Modern Literature and Creative Writing, and also the Co-Director of the Centre for New Writing. His main interests are in poetry, creative writing, contemporary literature and Irish Studies.
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- Professor Emeritus of Classics and Ancient History
Research specialisms: Greek iconography and mythology, facial reconstruction, ancient portraiture, chemical analysis of Greek pottery, application of ancient DNA research.
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- Professor of Egyptology / Research
Research specialisms: distance-learning Egyptology, Egyptian historiography, women in ancient Egypt.
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- Professor of Archaeology / Research
Research specialisms: Archaeology of Neolithic Britain and Europe, the theory and philosophy of archaeology, the status of archaeology as a discourse of modernity.
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- Professor of Cultural History and Sexuality Studies
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- Professor of Irish Literature
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- Professor of European Prehistory
Research specialisms: Iron Age histories, the archaeology of identity and personhood, studies of landscape and place, material culture and art.
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- Professor in 19th Century Writing
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- Professor of Creative Writing
Professor Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL is a poet, literary historian, translator and editor.
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- Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Writing
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- Professor of American Literature
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- Professor of Greek History and Epigraphy / Research
Research specialisms: Greek political and social history, Attic oratory (especially post-Social War), Greek inscriptions, 19th-century historiography, ancient Greek historiography.
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- Professor of Classics and Graeco - Arabic Studies
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- Academic Staff Member
- Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology / Research
Research specialisms: Archaeology of the Near and Middle East, social meanings of pottery, scientific archaeology and the use of computers in archaeology.
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- Professor Emeritus of Ancient History
Research specialisms: historiography, the history of warfare, urbanism and ethnicity, and all aspects of the history of Rome and Italy in the archaic and republican periods.
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- Research Support Manager
- Research Support Office
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- Research Support Assistant
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- Collaborative Partnerships Administrative Officer
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- Head of Learning, Factory International
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- Member of the PG Team
- Admissions Assistant
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- TLSE Coordinator ( Assessment and Progression )
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Silvia Vilar Gonzalez has a Doctorate in Teaching Second Languages (Spanish) by the University of Barcelona, a Ms. in Secondary Education, and another Master in Creative Writing, being a Spanish Philologyst (that is an Honours Degree in Spanish Language and Literatures). She is a hard-core Linguist!
But for the sake of not accepting labels, she am also a published author of Fiction Literature, an Award winning Literature Translator, and Copy Editor (worked for Penguin-Random House for 5 years in Barcelona) and a Poet in the make, with a passion for Children´s Literature in three languages: Catalan, Spanish and English.
She lived and worked in the US for 16 years, before arriving in the UK in 2017, and had the privilege to help hundreds of students to become confident second language learners and culture explorers while teaching at Ivy League Universities like Duke University, Clemson University and Syracuse University. In the UK, she has taught at King´s College London, the London Business School, Instituto Cervantes in London, University of Durham, and for the past years, at the University of Manchester.
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- Member of the UG Team
- Admissions Assistant
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- Director of the Whitworth Gallery and Honorary Professor of Transcultural Curating
Before joining Manchester as Director of the Whitworth and Professor, Sook-Kying Lee was Senior Curator of International Art at London's Tate Modern. Since 2019 she has led the ‘Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational', a major research initiative in partnership with Hyundai Motor, exploring new perspectives on global art histories. In 2021 she was also appointed Artistic Director of South Korea's 14th Gwangju Biennale, which opened in April 2023.
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- Research Programme Manager
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- Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries
Sun specialises in international cultural policy, UNESCO and Artificial Intelligence in cultural policy and the creative industries. She did a PhD in Sociology and MA in International Cultural Policy and Management from the University of Warwick. She has worked at UNESCO, the Korean National Commission for UNESCO and Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding under the auspices of UNESCO.
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- Head of the School of Arts
- Professor of Music Thomas Schmidt / Head, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Thomas Schmidt is Head of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures and Professor of Music. He studied at the University of Heidelberg and as a Fulbright Scholar in Chapel Hill. He was awarded his PhD and Habilitation from Heidelberg and was Visiting Professor at the University of Frankfurt before moving to the UK in 2005 as Professor and Chair of Music at Bangor University; from 2012, he was Professor of Music at The University of Manchester (later also leading the Division of Art History, Drama and Music), and from 2017 Dean of Music, Humanities and Media at the University of Huddersfield, before returning to Manchester in his current role in 2021. He was a Heisenberg Senior Research Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Illinois and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He is a member of the Academia Europaea.
His main research interests are in music of the 15th/16th and the 18th/19th centuries. In the Renaissance period, his main focus has been on word-music relationships and in the materiality, creation and transmission of polyphonic sources. In the Classical/Romantic period, his focus has been on Felix Mendelssohn, with editions of the major symphonies for the composer's Complete Edition. He has published monographs on Mendelssohn (Stuttgart, 1996), the fifteenth-century motet (Turnhout, 2003) and the sonata (Kassel, 2006; English version Cambridge, 2011), and directed an AHRC-funded project on the Production and Reading of Music Sources.
Editorial and advisory board roles include the Commission mixte of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales, the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music, Early Music, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart and Revue de Musicologie. He is currently preparing a catalogue of the music manuscripts of the Fondo Cappella Sistina in the Vatican Library, and a monograph on timbre and texture in nineteenth-century chamber music.
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- Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Early Christian Literature
Tuğgen teaches on the University's institution-wide language courses in Turkish. Originally from Turkey, Tuğgen holds a joint degree in English Language and Literature and English Language Teaching. She has a particular interest in translation and interpreting studies and is an avid linguist who enjoys lengthy discussions around grammar rules in a variety of languages immensely. Outside work, her interests include travelling, walking, folk dancing and jigsaw puzzles.
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- Admissions Coordinator
- Member of the Pre - Sessional English Admissions Team
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- Award Management Support Officer
Wayne has been involved in British Sign Language since 1998 when he was advised to specialise in something while studying counselling and psychotherapy, this started his love for BSL.
He has delivered training to AGE UK & NHS as well as Manchester university.
He loves educating people on BSL and deaf culture which is becoming more popular and the first GCSE in BSL starts in 2025, exciting times for BSL.
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- UCAE Marketing and Recruitment Coordinator