Staff Profiles
The Centre for South West Writing includes expertise from our Streatham Campus in Exeter and also from Tremough in Cornwall.
Andy Brown is the Director of the Centre for Creative Writing and Arts. He is a published poet whose work explores place, identity, environmental perspectives, and ideas of self.
Christine Faunch has responsibility for archives and manuscripts in Special Collections. Her role is to develop the collections by increasing access to them, encouraging and developing cataloguing and research projects and acquiring new archive material. She is also responsible for managing the Special Collections reading room and the CALM database.
Jessica Gardner is Head of Special Collections, within the University's Academic Services. She has significant curatorial and research experience relating to literary archives, which are actively collected at Exeter. She is also a committee member for UK GLAM (Group for Literary Archives and Manuscripts) and has presented a number of papers on the value of literary papers for research and learning
Marion Gibson is Senior Lecturer in English at the Cornwall Campus. Her research interests include the literature of British ethnic and tribal identities from the Dark Ages to the present, especially as these relate to myth, paganism and mysticism; and 'Celtic' identities with special reference to Cornwall.
Jo Gill is Lecturer in the English Department. Her research interests encompass modern poetry (including the work of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes), confession and life-writing, feminism and popular culture, poetry and place (especially the literature of the suburbs).
Nick Groom is Director of Research at the Cornwall Campus. His research interests include Literature and the environment; national and regional identities; ballads and popular culture; Thomas Chatterton; the Romantics and the South West; Sabine Baring-Gould.
Adeline Johns-Putra is Lead Academic at the Tremough campus. Her particular research interest is in relationship between literature and place.
Tim Kendall is Head of English and Director of the Centre for South West Writing. He lists among his research interests William Golding, Ivor Gurney, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Sam North is a novelist and screenwriter who lectures in Creative Writing. He has recently become a Trustee of the new South West Literature agency at Cyprus Well.
Angelique Richardson works on late nineteenth-century writers and discourses of science and medicine. She is Senior Lecturer in English. She is on the editorial boards of the three international journals - the Hardy Review, the Thomas Hardy Journal and the Hardy Society Journal - as well as being a member of the Thomas Hardy Society (UK), and a founding co-organiser of the first International Postgraduate Symposium on Hardy at the International Thomas Hardy Conference. She is now co-organizing the third symposium (July 2010) and co-organizing a conference on Hardy at Yale (June 2011).
Rick Rylance is Head of the School of Arts, Languages and Literatures. His research interests include Frances Bellerby, Jack Clemo, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Ashley Tauchert has published primarily in the area of eighteenth-century literary studies and feminist theory. She is currently the co-ordinator of the Exeter Eighteenth-Century Narrative Research Consortium. Future projects include work on Jane Austen in the South West.
Helen Taylor is Professor of English & American Literature, Department of English. Primarily a scholar of the American South, she edited The Daphne du Maurier Companion (2007) and has participated in the Du Maurier Festival since its inception. Since 2003 she has been a Board member of Bath Festivals.
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