People
Centre Director
Dr Ben Hickman
School of English - Senior Lecturer in Modern Poetry (Research leave Autumn term)
My research centres around British and American experimental poetry of the last hundred years, with a…
b.hickman@kent.ac.uk 01227 816262
Dr Juha Virtanen
School of English - Lecturer in Contemporary Literature (Acting Director Autumn term)
My research primarily covers American and British literature from the 20th and 21st centuries, with a…
j.p.virtanen@kent.ac.uk 01227 826550School of English
Professor David Ayers
School of English - Professor of Modernism and Critical Theory
My principal interests are in the fields of Modernism, American Literature and Critical Theory. I am…
d.s.ayers@kent.ac.uk 01227 823454
Dr Nancy Gaffield
School of English - Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
I teach at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and supervise postgraduate research students in Creative Writing (Poetry).…
n.gaffield@kent.ac.uk 01227 824945
Professor David Herd
School of English - Professor of Modern Literature
David Herd is a poet, critic, and teacher. He has given readings and lectures in Australia,…
d.herd@kent.ac.uk 01227 827506
Dr Ben Hickman
School of English - Senior Lecturer in Modern Poetry (Research leave Autumn term)
My research centres around British and American experimental poetry of the last hundred years, with a…
b.hickman@kent.ac.uk 01227 816262
Dorothy Lehane
School of English - Lecturer in Creative Writing
I am the author of three poetry publications: Umwelt (Leafe Press, 2016), Ephemeris (Nine Arches Press, 2014) and Places of Articulation (dancing girl…
D.Lehane@kent.ac.uk 01227 826584
Dr Ariane Mildenberg
School of English - Senior Lecturer in Modernism
My research focuses on kinships of both method and concern between phenomenology―the work of Edmund Husserl,…
a.mildenberg@kent.ac.uk 01227 827590
Dr Simon Smith
School of English - Reader in Creative Writing
‘Simon Smith’s writing forges English language poetry out of the translated utterance, London Bridge, [fixes] itself not…
s.smith-376@kent.ac.uk 01227 823423
Dr Juha Virtanen
School of English - Lecturer in Contemporary Literature (Acting Director Autumn term)
My research primarily covers American and British literature from the 20th and 21st centuries, with a…
j.p.virtanen@kent.ac.uk 01227 826550
Dr Sarah Wood
School of English - Reader in English Literature and Literary Theory
I’m interested in literature of various periods and kinds, deconstruction, philosophy and psychoanalysis. In recent years…
s.wood@kent.ac.uk 01227 827485