Marie’s research focuses on how law regulates human and animal bodies. She is a co-ordinating editor of Social and Legal Studies, is on the advisory board of the Journal of Law Society and an associated editor of Somatechnic.
Feedback & office hours
My office hours for Semester 2 will generally be 2-3pm ...
Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies
Department of Modern Languages: Hispanic Studies
Dr Shelley Godsland is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies and joined the department in April 2007. She previously worked at the University of Liverpool, Royal Holloway University of London, and Manchester Metropolitan University where she established and directed the Crime Fictions Research Centre and founded and managed the Crime Fictions Research Series of monographs and edited ...
Senior Lecturer in German
Department of Modern Languages: German Studies
My main research interests are in German literature of the period 1750-1815, with a particular interest in literary responses to political and social change. I am currently working on a monograph on the German idyll during this period. I have also published on the development of German literature in the context of the Reichsgründung. I teach widely across the German Studies ...
Senior Lecturer in Biblical Hermeneutics
Department of Theology and Religion
Deryn is interested in contemporary biblical hermeneutics, specifically in the ways gender theory and queer theory is utilized in the interpretation of scriptural texts. Her work currently engages with the disciplinary boundaries of feminist biblical scholarship, problematising its agenda, methodologies and politics by pioneering a lesbian-identified hermeneutic. Her interest in theories ...
Lecturer in French Studies
Department of Modern Languages: French Studies
Lecturer in French, specialising in Francophone Postcolonial literature, film and culture
Reader in French Film and Gender Studies
Head of Department of Art History, Film and Visual Studies
Department of Art History, Film and Visual Studies
My work focuses on French, European and women's film-making, on French and feminist thought (existentialist and post-structuralist theory) and on film theory and aesthetics.
Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies
Department of Modern Languages: Hispanic Studies
I came to the University of Birmingham in September 2007. I previously worked at Michigan State University, The University of New Hampshire and The University of North Texas.
Lecturer
Birmingham Law School
Imogen’s teaching and research concentrates on the areas of criminal law and criminal evidence law. She is particularly interested in the theoretical, political and philosophical debates regarding these areas. Her work on these areas is published in international peer reviewed journals.
Feedback & office hours
Head of Department
Senior Lecturer in American Studies
Department of American and Canadian Studies
The focus of my research is on post-war American history. I have published on women’s history, the cold war, civil rights and gender and international relations.
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Head of Department of Philosophy
I’m a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and also Head of Education for the School of Philosophy, Theology & Religion. My main interests are in meta-ethics, applied ethics and ethical theory, and I’m currently working on papers in moral theory, moral psychology, the philosophy of medicine and applied ethics.
Lecturer in History of Art
Department of Art History, Film and Visual Studies
My work focuses on the art and culture of the late medieval and early modern period, especially illuminated manuscripts, French and Burgundian court art, text-image relations, and women as subjects and consumers of visual cultures.
Senior Lecturer
Department of English
I joined the University of Birmingham in 1998, having received my Ph.D. from Birkbeck College, University of London, with a thesis on women, the city and the concept of the flâneusein nineteenth and twentieth-century English and American literature. Previously I studied at the University of Reading, where I took a BA in English Literature & Philosophy, and the MA Literature and the ...
Research Fellow
Applied Social Studies
Laura is currently working with the inter-disciplinary Securities, Communities & Global Justice Grouping, on research funded by the AHRC Religion and Society Programme to explore engagement and partnership between police and Muslim communities in relation to counter-terrorism, including the role of Muslim women and young people in this area.
Lecturer in Medieval History
Department of History
My area of interest is social and economic history of later medieval England, although I tend lean more towards the social than the economic. I am endlessly fascinated by peasants of all periods, but especially of the 13th and 14th centuries.
Senior Lecturer
Programme Lead for Italian Studies
Department of Modern Languages: Italian Studies
Programme Lead and Admissions Tutor for Italian Studies; School Quality Officer.
Main research interests and areas of PG supervision: gender, sexuality and embodiment in modern and contemporary Italian culture.
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Theory and German Studies
Department of Modern Languages: German Studies
I am based in GermanStudies and also teach media and cultural studies. I have been at the University of Birmingham since 2004.
Senior Lecturer
Dr Kathryn Simpson joined the University of Birmingham in 2000 and currently teaches English Literature on the BA (Hons) English Language and Literature in Educationprogramme. The focus of her teaching is primarily on nineteenth and twentieth century prose fiction, women’s writing, and literary and cultural theory (especially gender and sexuality issues and theories). She is a ...
Professor of Gender Equality in Education
School of Education
Christine Skelton is Professor of Gender Equality in Education. She is Director of Research and a Deputy Head of the School of Education.
Lecturer
Department of Art History, Film and Visual Studies
I specialise in eighteenth-century Swiss, and to a lesser extent, British visual cultures, with a growing interest in German visual cultures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I gained my research council funded PhD from the University of Birmingham in December 2007 and was appointed lecturer at Birmingham in 2008. My research into Anglo-Swiss relations has been awarded ...
Senior Lecturer in Political Science
Department of Political Science and International Studies
Nicola Smith is a political economist whose work is broadly concerned with debates about globalisation and social justice.
Senior Lecturer in International Relations Theory
Department of Political Science and International Studies
Lecturer
Applied Social Studies
Nicki is a Lecturer at the School of Social Policy, Institute of Applied Social Studies. Her role now, as a social work lecturer, enables her to combine her interests in social work, social care and social justice.
Lecturer in German Studies
Department of Modern Languages: German Studies
John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics
Head of Research for Philosophy, Theology and Religion
Department of Philosophy
Heather works on Global Ethics, Bioethics, Virtue Ethics and Feminist Theory. She is particularly interested in the ethical issues which arise in the context of globalization, including those of technological development, war and terrorism, poverty and development as well as bioethical issues; particularly, those of reproductive, research and genetic ethics.
Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology
School of Psychology
Jessica is a chartered psychologist and an HCPC registered forensic psychologist. Her primary areas of research are policing and sexual offending.
Lecturer in Medieval History
School of History and Cultures
I teach the history of religion and society in the early and central middle ages, and research on the cult of saints’ relics, miracles and religious cultures from the tenth to the thirteenth century in England.