Membership of the British Comparative Literature Association is open to academic members of universities and other institutions of higher learning as well as to graduate students and to other persons with appropriate scholarly interests, both in the UK and abroad. Below is a list of current BCLA members who have agreed for their names to be published on the website. Please contact the Web Editor for updates.
| Members | Research Interest |
| Professor Marie Therese Abdelmessih, Kuwait University, Kuwait and Cairo University, Egypt | Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Intermediality, Visual Culture, E-Literature |
| PhD (candidate) Renata Meints Adail, University of Birmingham | James Joyce John Milton Presence in Literature Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Graphic Novels |
| Timothy Adès, Rhyming Translator-Poet | Desnos, Hugo, Cassou, Alfonso Reyes, Brecht, Sikelianós |
| Emeritus Professor Jeremy Adler, King’s College London | |
| Dr Lucia Aiello, University of York | Multilingualism, Women Writers and Gender Theory, Narratives of Displacement |
| Professor Abdulla Al-Dabbagh, United Arab Emirates University, UAE | Shakespeare, World Literature, Contemporary Literature, Literary Theory, Film Studies |
| Dr Najim A. Kadhim Al-Dyni, College of Arts, University of Baghdad, Iraq | Studies of Literary Influences, Image of the Other in National Literature, Criticism |
| Dr Burcu Alkan, Justus Liebig University, Giessen | Comparative and World Literature, Turkish Literature, Modernity and Literature, Medical Humanities, Madness & Psychiatry in Literature |
| Dr Joan Anim-Addo, Goldsmiths, University of London | |
| James Appleton, University College London | |
| Professor Sanja Bahun, University of Essex | |
| Professor Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths, University of London | |
| Dr Alessio Baldini, University of Leeds | 19th- and 20th-Century European Novel, Literary Theory, Literature and Ethics, Literature and the Mind |
| Dr Paul Barnaby, University of Edinburgh | |
| Ariana Bassetti, Queen Mary University o London | Graphic narrative, testimonial literature, cultural memory, visual culture, psychoanalysis |
| Professor Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick | |
| Douglas Battersby, University of York | Modernist Literature, Contemporary Literature, Philosophical Approaches, Form-Centred Approaches, Literary Theory |
| Dame Gillian Beer, University of Cambridge | |
| Professor Matthew Bell, King’s College London | |
| Stefano Bellin, University College London | Italian Literature and Thought, Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, Continental Philosophy, Political Theory |
| Dr Jakob Blakesley, University of Leeds | Translation studies, Literary translation, World literature, Digital humanities, Italian literature |
| Emeritus Professor Alcuin Blamires, Goldsmiths, University of London | Chaucer, fourteenth-century English literature, the history and context of medieval debate about women in vernacular and Latin writings, European medieval romance. |
| Dr Caroline Blinder, Goldsmiths, University of London | |
| Professor Jean Boase-Beier, University of East Anglia | Literary Translation, Holocaust Poetry, Poetics and Stylistics |
| Professor Lucia Boldrini, Goldsmiths, University of London | |
| Dr Emma Bond, University of St Andrews | Italian and Comparative Literature |
| Dr Rebecca Braun, University of Lancaster | |
| Dr Geraldine Brodie, University College London | |
| Dr Catherine Brown, New College of the Humanities | Modernism, Late Victorian Literature, Anglo-Russian Literary Relations, D. H. Lawrence |
| Penny Brown, University of Manchester | |
| Professor Sarah Annes Brown, Anglia Ruskin University | |
| Dr Leon Burnett, University of Essex | |
| Valentine Colton, University of Oxford | Nineteenth Century, French Literature, English Literature, German Literature, World Literature |
| Dr Marie-Claude Canova-Green, Goldsmiths, University of London | |
| Professor Helen Carr, Goldsmiths, University of London | Modern European and North-American Narrative, Postcolonial Literature, Adaptation Studies |
| Dr Viviane Carvalho da Annunciacao, University of Cambridge | |
| Dr Jo Catling, University of East Anglia | Comparative Literature, Transnational Poetics, Brazilian Studies, English Studies, Translation |
| Dr Peter Cherry, Assistant Professor in the Department of Turkish Literature at Bilkent University | Twentieth and Twenty-first century British and Turkish Literature, Film and Culture, Gender and Masculinity Studies, Travel and Migration Writing, Intermediality, Comparative and World Literature |
| Min Ji Choi, University College London | |
| Dr Margaret Anne Clarke, University of Portsmouth | |
| Rosie Clarke, University of Warwick | Comparative Literature in Chinese/English |
Dr Monika Class, King’s College London |
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| Dr Josh Cohen, Goldsmiths, University of London | |
| Dr Benjamin Colbert, University of Wolverhampton | |
| Dr Anthony Coulson, Dublin City University, Ireland | |
| Emma Crowley, University of Bristol | Russian literature, Latin American literature, Caribbean literature, Mikhail Bakhtin, World literature, Political economy of literature |
| Dr Ruth Cruickshank, Royal Holloway, University of London | Comparative Literature and Culture Critical potential of representations of food, drink and consumption Translation Contemporary fiction |
| Charlène Cruxent, University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 | Early Modern and Restoration Literature William Shakespeare, Onomastics, Gender studies, Food studies, The agency of language, Translation, Theatre, Queen Elizabeth I, The notion of public sphere, Franco-British cultural exchanges and diplomatic relations |
| Dr Marion Dalvai, University of St Andrews | Translation Studies, Young Adult Fiction, Intertextuality, Reception Studies, World Literature |
| Professor Lucile Desblache, University of Roehampton | |
| Dr Jane Desmarais, Goldsmiths, University of London | Literature and Science, International Modernism, Very Short Fiction, Millenarianism, Dystopian Fiction and Drama |
| Rebecca DeWald, University of Glasgow | |
| Dr Emilia Di Rocco, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy | |
| Assistant Prof Dr Simla Ayse Dogangunq, University of Istanbul, Turkey | Comparative literature, memory studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, world literature |
| Kelsie Donnely, Queen’s University Belfast | American Literature; 21st Century Literature; Abject Bodies; Grief; Precarity |
| Maura Dooley, Goldsmiths, University of London | |
| Dr Biljana Đorić-Francuski, University of Belgrade, Serbia | |
| Professor Peter Dunwoodie, Goldsmiths, University of London | |
| Dr Ayman El-Desouky, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London | |
| Professor Manfred Engel, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany | Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, Latin American Studies, English Literature |
| Dr Kelsey Entrikin, University of Strathclyde, Scotland | Transformative works, queer studies, feminist literature, gender theory |
| Dr Stefano Evangelista, Durham University and Harvard University, USA | |
| Professor Rachel Falconer, University of Lausanne, Switzerland | |
| Dr Ann Marie Fallon, Portland State University, USA | |
| Professor Gentil de Faria, Instituto Gentil de Faria, Brazil | Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Modern and Travel Literature, British vs French Exotic Literature, Translation and Culture |
| Tanya Fernández Escudero | Poetry, Literary Translation, Translation Studies, Ideology, Lietrature and Translation |
| Professor Alison Finch, University of Cambridge | French literature, 1600 to present Women’s writing, Cultural studies |
Dr Emily Finer, University of St Andrews |
Russian literature and theory, comparative literature and translation |
| Professor Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool | |
| Professor John Burt Foster, George Mason University, USA | |
| Professor Peter France, University of Edinburgh | |
| Naomi Charlotte Fukuzawa, University College London | Modern Japanese Literature, Comparative Literature, French, German and English Literature and Culture |
| Dr Omar García-Obregón, Queen Mary, University of London | Francophone Postcolonial Literature, Travel Writing, Caribbean Literature, World Literature, Translating Cultures |
| Dr Howard Gaskill, University of Edinburgh | |
| Mrs Alina Ghimpu-Hague, Royal Holloway, University of London | 17th- and 18th-Century French Literature, Rhetoric and Literary Theory, Modern Russian Poetry, Literary Translation |
| Dr Patricia Gillies, University of Essex | Rhetoric and Literary Theory |
| Dr John T. Gilmore, University of Warwick | |
| Professor Andrew Ginger, University of Bristol | Modern Russian Poetry |
| Dr Dorota Goluch, Cardiff University | Literary Translation |
| Jonatan Gonzalez, University of La Rioja | Romanticism, 18th-Century Literature, Travel Writing, Anglo-Spanish Relations, Literary Afterlives |
| Dr Cornelia Gräbner, University of Lancaster | |
| Dr Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir, University of Iceland | |
| Professor Nicholas Halmi, University of Oxford (University College) | Enlightenment and Romantic literature (British, German, French), intellectual history (17th-20th c.), Enlightenment and Romantic visual culture, Anglo-Italian literary and cultural relations, Anglo-German literary and cultural relations |
| Dr Glyn Hambrook, University of Wolverhampton | |
| Dr Nicholas Harrison, King’s College London | 18th-Century Literature, Neo-Latin Literature, Caribbean Literature, Translation Studies, History of Cultural Relations between China and the West |
| Dr Katharina Herold, University of Oxford | Comparative Literature, European Fin-de-Siècle Literature and Decadence (English, German, French), Drama Theory and Practice, Literary and Cultural Theory (Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism) |
| Professor Theo Hermans, University College London | Postcolonial Literature, Literary Multilingualism, Postwar British Literature, Translation Studies, Colonial Linguistics |
| Dr Richard Hibbitt, University of Leeds | |
| Dr Isobel Hurst, Goldsmiths, University of London | Translation and Solidarity, Postcolonial Literature and Translation, Polish Literature and Translation, Reception Studies, Translation, Memory and the Holocaust |
| Professor Margaret-Anne Hutton, University of St Andrews | French literature; contemporary literatures; theories of ‘(the) contemporary’ |
| Dr Paul Innes, University of Glasgow | |
| Professor Adriana X. Jacobs, University of Oxford | Modern Hebrew and Israeli Literature, Literary Translation, Comparative Poetics, Modern Jewish Literature, Political Poetry |
| Steven Jefferson, University of London | |
| Professor Ann M. Jefferson, University of Oxford | |
| Dr Rebecca Jones, University of Birmingham | |
| Dr Dionysios Kapsaskis, University of Roehampton | |
| Silvina Katz, Open University | Short Story in Translation, Latin American Women Writers, Sensorial Perception in Translation, Neuroscience of Translation |
| Dr Alicia Kent, King’s College London | |
| Dr Angela Kershaw, University of Birmingham | |
| Ahmed F. Khaleel, University of York | German Literature, Polish Literature, Russian Literature, Nation-building and Imperialism, |
| Professor Holger Klein, University of Salzburg, Austria | History |
| Dr Anita Klujber, University of Essex | Comparative Literature, Myth, Bibliotherapy, Literature and Music, Literature and Science |
| Dr Grace Koh, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London | |
| Dr Andreas Kramer, Goldsmiths, University of London | |
| Dr Frank Krause, Goldsmiths, University of London | |
| Dr Allison Adler Kroll, University of Oxford | C19-20 European Literature and History, Environmental Humanities |
| Quatjon Lanos, University of Glasgow | Sexology, Literature, psycology |
| Associate Professor Daniela La Penna, University of Reading | Modern Poetry (English-Arabic), Comparative Literature, Literary Translation, Human Rights and Literature, Poetic Drama |
| Dr Duncan Large, University of East Anglia | |
| Ann Lawson Lucas, University of Hull | |
| Ms Persida Lazarevic, Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, Italy | Southern Slavic Enlightenment, Italian-Southern Slavic Relations (18th-19th Centuries), Southern Slavic Oral Tradition |
| Dr Charles Leavitt, University of Reading | Italian Literature, Italian Cinema, Global Modernism, American Literature, African-American Literature |
| Diana Leca, University of Cambridge | Poetry, Translation, World Literature |
| Dr Hee Sook Lee-Niinioja, Independent Scholar | |
| Emeritus Professor Laura Lepschy, University College London | |
| Dr Tzu-Yu Lin, University College London | literary translation, postcolonial translation |
| Professor Karin Littau, University of Essex | Film Studies, Taiwanese Cinema, Transnational, Chinese Cinema, Asian Cinema |
| Rebecca Macklin, University of Leeds | Indigenous literatures; postcolonial literature; African literature; world literature; critical theory |
| Dr Donald Mackenzie, University of Glasgow | |
| Dr Francesca Medaglia, Sapienza – University of Rome | Authorship; transmedia; co-authored literature; Collective writing; Transmedia storytelling |
| Dr Robin MacKenzie, University of St Andrews | |
| Janet Macro | Poetry Plays, Novels in British English |
| Mrs Natasha Mansfield, University of Essex | |
| Dr Nuria Manzur | Comparative Poetry and Poetics, Language Philosophy, Contemporary Aesthetics, Ethics and Epistemology |
| Dr Alison Martin, University of Reading | Transnational Modernism, Theories of the Avant-garde, Experimental Contemporary Poetics, Aesthetics and the Frankfurt School, the novel |
| Dr Saskia McCracken, University of Glasgow | Modernism, Animal Studies, Feminism, Darwin Studies, Feather Fashion |
| Dr Laura Martin, University of Glasgow | Text-Image Relationship (Especially in Goethe), Hindu-Buddhist-Christian-Islamic Architectural Ornamentation, Journalism, Scandinavian Design |
| Dr Frauke Matthes, University of Edinburgh | |
| Dr Sebastian Matzner, King’s College London | |
| Deirdre McMahon, University of Warwick | |
| Professor Paulo de Medeiros, University of Warwick | World Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Philosophy and Literature, Lusophone Literatures, Global Modernisms |
| Marco Medugno, University of Newcastle | Comparative Literature; Postcolonial Literature; Italian Literature; Somali Studies; Geography |
| Dr Michela Meschini, University of Macerata | Literature and the visual arts Postmodern theory and fiction Geocriticism Eco-criticism Women’s writing |
| Prof Zoran Milutinovic, University College London | South Slav literature, Modern European Drama, Dramatic Theory |
| Professor Bart Moore-Gilbert, Goldsmiths, University of London | |
| Ms Gilly Mroz, University of Oxford | Comparative Literature, Spanish Literature, Russian Literature, History of the Novel, Reception Studies |
| Miss Lydia Munday, University of Leeds | Theatre translation |
| Dr Florian Mussgnug, University College London | Modern Italian literature, Comparative literature |
| Mr Igbinedion Obaretin, University of Aberdeen | Comparative Literary Stylistics and Cross-Cultural Studies, Post 9/11 Literature and Theories, Gender Violence, War, and Terrorism in Literature, Anglophone and Francophone African Literature, Postcolonial Literature and Theories |
| Stephanie Obermeier, University of Kent | French and German Autofiction, The Contemporary Novel, Multilingualism |
| Associate Professor Maike Oergel, University of Nottingham | Translation Studies, Sociology of Translation, Sociology of Cultural Production, History of Publishing, History of Culture |
| Associate Professor Mohamed-Salah Omri, University of Oxford | Old and Middle English Language and Literature, Medieval Romance, Alliterative Poetry, Folk Tales, Courtliness, the Arthurian Tradition, Sound Studies and Medical Humanities |
| Professor Wen-chin Ouyang, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London | |
| Dr Mariangela Palladino, University of Keele | Indian Literature, Irish Literature, Modernism, Identity Studies, Postcolonial Literature |
| Chrysi Papaioannou, University of Leeds | |
| Professor Sowon Park, University of Oxford/UCSB | Theories of World Literature, Modern East Asian Literature, British Modernism, Cognitive Literary Criticism, Political Fiction |
| Dr Henriette Partzsch, University of Glasgow | |
| Dr Alessandra Petrocchi, University of Oxford | Comparative Literature Language-Literature-Culture Interface Comparative Approaches to Medieval and Early Modern Literature World Literature |
| Professor Jaroslaw Pluciennik, University of Łódź, Poland | |
| Dr Carmen Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania | |
| Dr Hany Rashwan, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London | |
| Dr Salia Rex, St.Paul’s College, Kalamassery,Kerala, India | British Drama, Shakespeare, Indian Philosophy |
| Professor Matthew Reynolds, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford | Postcolonial Literature, Ecocriticism and Animal Studies, Cultural Geography, Fairytales and Myth in Contemporary Fiction |
| Dr Jasmine Richards | Classical reception in contemporary women’s writing, Intertextuality and rewriting, Feminist and Queer Theory, 19th and 20th century women’s writing |
| Emily Rose, University of East Anglia | Theory of Literature, the Act of Reading from Comparative and Cognitive Perspectives, Educational Technology (Especially Iphonology) |
| Laura Gonzalez Salmeron, University of Oxford | Literature and Science, Contemporary Literature, Fairy-tales, Graphic Narratives, Rhetoric of Science |
| Barney Samson, University of Essex | Romanian literature, Poerty and Poetics, Parody and Satire, Postmodernism |
| Simone Schröder, University of Bath | |
| Melissa Schuh, Queen Mary, University of London | |
| Dr Karen Seago, City University London | |
| Dr Sean Seeger, University of Essex | Modernism, postcolonialism, science fiction, utopias/dystopias/heterotopias |
| Professor Naomi Segal, Birkbeck, University of London | |
| Professor Elinor Shaffer, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge | |
| Professor Efraim Sicher, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel | Comparative Literature, German Literature, Art History, Literature and Politics, Literature and Economics |
| Yvette Siegert, University of Oxford | Latin American Studies, Translation Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Caribbean Studies, Literary Cognition Studies, Cultural Geography |
| Sigrid Thomsen | Postcolonial and decolonial theory, Caribbean literature, Contemporary literatures in English, Popular culture, Comics and graphic novels |
| Dr Michael Simpson, Goldsmiths, University of London | |
| Dr Valentina Sirangelo, University of Calabria (Italy) | Comparative Literature, Mythocriticism, Archetypal Literary Criticism, Media Studies, 20th-Century European and American Poetry |
| Nichola Smalley, University College London | |
| Abebe Sofanit, University College London | Second Temple Jewish Literature, New Testament and Early Christian Literature, Comparative Analysis of Early Judaism and Early Christianity, Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Ethiopic Literature |
| Emily Speirs, University of Oxford | James Joyce, Derek Walcott, Modernism, Literary Criticism, Intellectual History |
| Dr Niall Sreenan, University College London | |
| Dr Andy Stafford, University of Leeds | Romanticism, Literature and the Visual Arts, Literature and Science |
| Dr Axel Stähler, University of Kent | |
| Dr Tamar Steinitz, Goldsmiths, University of London | |
| Gabriela Steinke, University of Wolverhampton | |
| Dr Joanna Stolarek, Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, Poland | |
| Dr Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, University College London | Scandinavian Literature, World Literature, Crime Fiction, Comparative Literature, Fairy Tales |
| Dr Céline Surprenant, University of Sussex | |
| Dr Carole Sweeney, Goldsmiths, University of London | Turkish Literature, Modernism, 20th-Century British Literature |
| Dr Miceala Symington, Université de La Rochelle, France | 20th-Century and Contemporary Literature, Transnational Literature, Translingualism, Translation Studies, Migration |
| Dr Katarzyna Szymanska, University of Oxford | Slavonic Languages, Comparative Literature, Translation Studies |
| Dr Nicola Thomas, University of Nottingham | English Literature, German Literature, Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Poetry, Space and Place |
| Dr Paola Toninato, University of Warwick | |
| Dr Derval Tubridy, Goldsmiths, University of London | |
| Professor Natalia Tuliakova, National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Russia | Comparative Studies, Genre Studies, Literary Theory, Literary Legends |
| Associate Professor Evy Varsamopoulou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus | Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Language Philosophy, Language Mysticism, Madness in Literature |
| Professor Robert Vilain, University of Bristol | English Literature, German Literature, Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Poetry, Space and Place |
| Dr Sinéad Wall, University of Westminster | |
| Fang Wan, | Modern Chinese literature, East Asian popular culture, digital culture, gender studies in East Asia |
| Dr. Shao-Hua Wang, University of Oxford | City Literature, Comparative Literature, Phenomenology |
| Professor Marina Warner, Birkbeck, University of London | |
| Vered Weiss, University of Kent | English Literature, American Literature and Culture, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies |
| Professor Shane Weller, University of Kent | |
| Professor Robert Weninger, King’s College London | |
| Joanna Wilson, University of Leicester | Irish Travel and Diasporic Writing in Latin America and Beyond, the Returnee, Portrayals of Argentina, 20th-Century Spanish Cinema |
| Dr. N. Kıvılcım Yavuz, University of Copenhagen | Medieval Studies, Classical Reception and Textual Transmission, Historiography, Literary Theory, Manuscript Studies |
| Jessica Siu Yin Yeung, SOAS University of London | East-East/West Comparative Studies, Literary and Visual Culture of Twentieth-Century Taiwan and Hong Kong, Modernism, Gender in Literature and Film, Asian Digital Humanities |
| Alessia Zinari, University of Glasgow | Medical Humanities, Feminist Theory, Trauma Studies, Autobiography, Women’s Writing |
| Assistant Professor Vladimir Zoric, University of Nottingham |
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