Dr Kerry Featherstone

Programme Leader and Lecturer in English

Kerry is a specialist in Creative Writing and Contemporary Travel with an interest in Literature Development. He leads workshops on aspects of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and editing, as well as the professional development module on working as a writer.

Dr Sara Read

Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing

Sara is a specialist in early modern culture, literature, and medicine, with a specific focus on women’s reproductive health. She is a novelist who writes research based historical fiction.

Dr Paul Jenner

Lecturer in English

Paul's principal research interests are in North American fiction, philosophy, and intellectual history, with a particular focus on the philosopher and critic Stanley Cavell. He has expertise in fiction, philosophy, and critical theory which forms his teaching.

Dr Barbara Cooke

Senior Lecturer in English

Barbara is delighted to share my love of narrative, and non-fictional narrative through her teaching. Her interests in twentieth-century and modernist (auto)biography, life writing and archival research underpin her current project, the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh.