Academic officers and staff

Find academics by their role within the School, or by subject area.

How to contact us

Many of us work on a hybrid basis - a mixture of on-campus and digitally.

Our working hours are Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm (UK time).

Please email us in the first instance, and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

The following details are correct for Semester 1 of Academic Year 2024 to 2025, but are subject to change in Semster 2 (from January 2025).

Academic office bearers

Title	Name
Director of Learning and Teaching (Undergraduate and Postgraduate)	Dr Ben Bateman
Deputy Director of Learning and Teaching (Quality Assurance and Enhancement)	Dr Hannah Simpson
Postgraduate Research Director	Dr Frauke Matthes
Director of Students	Dr Véronique Desnain
Director of Research	Dr Charlotte Gleghorn
Deputy Director of Research and Director of Impact and Knowledge Exchange	Dr Hephzibah Israel
Academic Misconduct Officer	Dr Barbara Castillo Büttinghausen
Academic Promotions Officer	Professor Federica Pedriali
Research Ethics Lead	Dr Bea Alex
Director of People and Equalities	Dr Mavis Ho
Outreach and Widening Participation Officer	Patricia Rueda Díez
Outreach and Widening Participation Officer	Dr Sergi Mainer
Senior Disability Coordinator	Dr Neill Martin
Library Committee Representative	Dr Christopher Rosenmeier

Departmental office bearers

Asian Studies

Title	Name
Head of Asian Studies	Dr Daniel Hammond
Departmental Postgraduate Research Director	Professor Natascha Gentz
Programme Director - MSc East Asian Studies	Dr Holly Stephens

Browse all staff in Asian Studies (including staff in Chinese, East Asian, Japanese and Korean Studies)

Celtic and Scottish Studies

Title	Name
Head of Celtic and Scottish Studies	Dr Neill Martin
Departmental Postgraduate Research Director	Dr Anja Gunderloch

Browse all staff in Celtic and Scottish Studies (including staff in Celtic, Scottish Ethnology and Scottish Studies)

English and Scottish Literature

Title	Name
Head of English and Scottish Literature	Professor Suzanne Trill
Departmental Postgraduate Research Director	Dr Andrew Taylor
Programme Director - MSc Creative Writing	Dr Patrick Errington
Programme Director - MSc Literature and Modernity	Dr Peter Adkins
Programme Director - MSc Literature and Society	Dr Owen Holland
Programme Director - MSc Playwriting	Nicola McCartney

Browse all staff in English and Scottish Literature (including staff in English Literature, Scottish Literature, Creative Writing and Playwriting)

European Languages and Cultures

Title	Name
Head of European Languages and Cultures	Dr Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin
Departmental Postgraduate Research Director	Dr Ruairidh Tarvet
Programme Director - MSc Comparative Literature	Dr Frauke Matthes
Programme Directors - MSc Intermediality	Professor Marion Schmid and Dr Fabien Arribert-Narce

Browse all staff in European Languages and Cultures by subject area:

The Departmental Postgraduate Research Director for European Languages and Cultures is also the point of contact for postgraduate research degrees in:

Comparative Literature
European Theatre
Intermediality
Medieval Studies

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Title	Name
Head of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies	Dr Ines Aščerić-Todd
Departmental Postgraduate Research Director	Dr Ebtihal Mahadeen
Programme Directors - MSc Globalised Muslim World	Professor Frédéric Volpi and Dr Kholoud Al Ajarma
Programme Director - MSc Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies	Dr Marie Legendre

Browse all staff in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (including staff in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern Studies)

More staff by subject area / programme

Title	Name
Film Studies - point of contact for Postgraduate Research	Dr David Sorfa
Programme Director - MSc Film Studies	Dr Ana Salzberg
Programme Directors - MSc Film, Exhibition and Curation	Susan Kemp and Jane Sillars
Intermediality - point of contact for Postgraduate Research	Dr Ruairidh Tarvet
Programme Directors - MSc Intermediality	Professor Marion Schmid and Dr Fabien Arribert-Narce

Browse all staff in Film and Intermediality

Title	Name
Translation Studies - point of contact for Postgraduate Research	The Translation Studies team
Programme Director - MSc Translation Studies	Professor Charlotte Bosseaux

Browse all staff in Translation Studies

This article was published on 2024-08-13