The University of Sheffield
School of English

Emeritus Professors and Honorary Staff

Below is a list of current Emeritus Professors and Honorary Research Fellows. 

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Name Email Internal Extension Research Interest
ADAMSON, Emeritus Professor Silvia s.adamson@sheffield.ac.uk ----- Linguistics & Literary History; English Grammar Past & Present; Renaissance Rhetoric.
DEWAR-WATSON, Dr Sarah s.dewar-watson@sheffield.ac.uk -----

Early Modern drama;
Early Modern medicine; the reception of classical texts (esp. Greek tragedy) from the Sixteenth Century to the present day.

DUFFIELD, Professor Nigel n.g.duffield@sheffield.ac.uk ----- Language acquisition;
Syntax;
Psycholinguistics.
FOSTER, Dr Shirley shirley@lettuce.force9.co.uk ----- Victorian Women's Fiction; Anglo-American Travel Writing.
HAFFENDEN, Emeritus Professor John j.haffenden@sheffield.ac.uk -----
HANSON, Dr Ingrid i.h.hanson@sheffield.ac.uk ----- Victorian literature, culture and the representation of political violence, war and peace from the mid-Nineteenth Century to the early Twentieth Century.
ROBERTS, Emeritus Professor Neil n.j.roberts@sheffield.ac.uk ----- Twentieth-Century Poetry; D.H.Lawrence; Victorian Fiction.
SCHWARTZ-LEEPER, Dr Gavin g.schwartzleeper@sheffield.ac.uk ----- Tudor political literature;
Historiography; Authority;
Early English drama;
Medieval and early modern manuscript and archive culture.
WOOLFORD, Prof John mfatsjw2@yahoo.co.uk ----- The Poetry of Browning; Victorian Periodicals; Sensation Fiction.