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Dr Sarah Heaton
Head of English
01244 513156
s.heaton@chester.ac.uk
Dr Joanne Close
Deputy Head of Department
01244 511960
j.close@chester.ac.uk
Dr Lucy Andrew
Senior Lecturer in English Literature.
l.andrew@chester.ac.uk
Dr Graham Atkin
Senior Lecturer in English Literature
01244 513151
g.atkin@chester.ac.uk
Dr Peter Blair
Senior Lecturer in English Literature; Programme Leader for MRes English
01244 513147
p.blair@chester.ac.uk
Dr Ashley Chantler
Senior Lecturer in English Literature; Programme Leader, MA Creative Writing: Writing and Publishing Fiction.
01244 512128
a.chantler@chester.ac.uk
Dr Matt Davies
Senior Lecturer in English Language; Programme Leader, MA English Language and Linguistics
01244 511835
matt.davies@chester.ac.uk
Prof Melissa Fegan
Professor of Irish and Victorian Literature
01244 513146
m.fegan@chester.ac.uk
Dr Paul Flanagan
Senior Lecturer in English Language; Programme Leader for BA English Language (Single Hons)
01244 512857
p.flanagan@chester.ac.uk
Dr Francesca Haig
Visiting Writing Fellow
01244 513848
f.haig@chester.ac.uk
Dr Richard Leahy
Senior Lecturer
r.leahy@chester.ac.uk
Dr Clara Neary
Senior Lecturer in English Language
01244 511803
c.neary@chester.ac.uk
Dr Harry Parkin
Senior Lecturer in English Language; Programme Leader, MRes Storytelling
01244 511392
h.parkin@chester.ac.uk
Prof Emma Rees
Professor of Literature and Gender Studies; Programme Leader, MRes Gender Studies.
01244 513149
e.rees@chester.ac.uk
Dr Alex Tankard
Lecturer in English Literature
01244 513157
a.tankard@chester.ac.uk
Prof Alan Wall
Professor of Writing and Literature
01244 513167
a.wall@chester.ac.uk
Dr Helen West
Senior Lecturer in English Language/Linguistics.
01244 511239
h.west@chester.ac.uk
Dr Sally West
Senior Lecturer in English Literature.
01244 512130
sally.west@chester.ac.uk
Prof Deborah Wynne
Programme Leader for English Literature; Research Coordinator for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
01244 313157
d.wynne@chester.ac.uk