Dr Jean Chothia
Reader Emerita in Drama and Theatre.
Jean Chothia has research interests in drama, dramatic language and Shakespeare in performance.
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Dr Philip Connell
University Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies in English
Philip Connell studied Literature and Philosophy at Liverpool University, and came to Cambridge to work on a Ph.D. at King's College. He held a Research Fellowship at St. John's College, Cambridge before moving to Selwyn. His principal research and teaching interests lie in the period 1650-1850. He is the author of Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture', and co-editor of Romanticism and Popular Culture in Britain and Ireland.
Dr Sarah Meer
University Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies in English
Sarah Meer teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature.Her research interests include discussions of race and slavery in the mid-nineteenth century, the relationships between literature and popular culture (especially the theatre and spectacular entertainments),and African-American literature. Her book Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s was published in 2005, and she has also co-edited, with Denise Kohn and Emily Todd, Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture (2006).
Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson
Lecturer and Director of Studies in English
Dr. Bonnie Lander Johnson teaches Renaissance literature and drama at Selwyn and the English Faculty. Her research covers the political, theological and medical contexts of early modern performance, questions of genre, and changing early modern perceptions of the body. Her forthcoming book is a study of the poetics of chastity in Stuart performance; her subsequent project investigates Renaissance theories of blood.
Dr Vidyan Ravinthiran
Keasbey Research Fellow in American Studies
Vidyan Ravinthiran completed his DPhil on "Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Prose" at Balliol College, Oxford. His research interests range from the work of Shelley and Hazlitt in the long eighteenth century to British, Irish and American poetry of the twentieth. He is particularly interested in questions of form in both poetry and prose.