LTA Staff Areas of Interest
Prof Heather Walton (Professor of Theology and Creative Practice)
- feminist theology
- practical theology
- theology and creative practice
- life-writing
- theopoetics
Prof George Pattison (1640 Chair of Divinity)
- modern art and theology
- existentialism
- phenomenology
- concept of God
Dr Anna Fisk (Research Assistant in Literature and Theology)
- feminism and religion
- craft and spirituality
- contemporary women's writing
Dr Sam Tongue (Tutor in Christian Theology)
- Bible and culture
- poetry
- ecological literature
Dr Mia Spiro (Lecturer in Jewish Studies)
- Jewish literature
- English modernism/modernist aesthetics
- fascism/antifascism
- ethics and the Holocaust
- art and politics
- minority literature
Associated Staff
Prof Gerry Carruthers: religion in Irish & Scottish Literatures, the Whig Presbyterian novel in 19th century Scotland, Catholicism & Scottish literature (especially, Muriel Spark)
Julie Clague: contemporary religious iconography, modern Catholic thought, ethics, gender, feminist theology
Prof Robert Davis: postsecularism, sectarianism, literature and theology, folklore
Dr Vassiliki Kolocotroni: modernism, avant-garde studies, socialist theory and movements, film
Dr Sarah Nicholson: Bible and literature, Freud and psychoanalysis, feminist biblical interpretion, women's sexuality in biblical narratives, Thomas Hardy
Prof Alison Phipps: translation, intercultural studies, sanctuary and asylum, ethnography (not taking new research students at present)
Dr Bryony Randall: religion in modernist literature, literature and everyday life
Dr Lloyd Ridgeon: Sufism, Persian literature, contemporary Iran, Islamic theology and politics, film.
Prof Elizabeth Robertson: gender and mysticism, contemplative spiritual Traditions in medieval literature, feminist theory
Dr Susan Stuart: hermeneutics, philosophy and phenomenology
Dr Rhian Williams: literature and theology, romanticism, ecological writing