Creative staff
Our creative writing and drama staff are all experts in their field. You’ll find published authors, poets and playwrights wanting to share their experiences, critique your work, and encourage you to develop your own voice.
Meet the team:
I am passionate about helping students to engage with Shakespeare and other early modern playwrights, whether by exploring the context in which his plays were first written and performed or by looking at the other forms they can take via adaptation.
- Anna Blackwell, Assistant Professor in Drama
As an enthusiastic teacher I enjoy making concepts understandable and relatable to everyday life.
- Chris Collins, Associate Professor in Drama
My approach to teaching drama, especially with Shakespeare, is to explore it collaboratively, 'on its feet'.
- Sarah Grandage, Associate Professor in Drama and Performance
One of the great things about creative writing is that it forms its own unique relationship with each and every writer, each time they take up a pen or strike a keyboard.
- Spencer Jordan, Associate Professor in Creative Writing
I am interested in helping students to produce fiction of all shapes and sizes. My classes are devoted to not only rigorous writing exercises but also careful attention to the process of reading published works from a writer's perspective.
- Thomas Legendre, Assistant Professor in Creative Writing
I am committed to connecting the practice and study of creative writing to wider research culture.
- Lila Matsumoto, Assistant Professor in Creative Writing
My work in the school draws extensively on my professional experience as a fiction writer.
- Jon McGregor, Professor of Creative Writing
When we read fiction we may find our usual ideas and experiences challenged. Performing drama takes this to a greater extreme: encouraging us physically to speak, move, and interact as though we were someone other than ourselves. It is very difficult to remain focussed narrowly on one perspective when thinking about that complex interaction between actor, character, and audience.
- Jim Moran, Professor of English Literature and Drama
I am motivated by working in a School where the practice, history and theory of theatre and performance are explored through a range of courses.
- Lucie Sutherland, Assistant Professor in Drama
I am a practising writer, and have published two collections of poems with Carcanet Press and a pamphlet with EggBox.
- Matt Welton, Associate Professor in Creative Writing