Staff Members
Dr Helen Vella Bonavita
Deputy Director of the Research Institute
Helen’s main research interests are with early modern literature, with an emphasis on drama, translations, and issues of legitimacy, nationality and identity. Her most recent work is in the field of liminal and excluded figures within early modern drama.
Email: h.vella-bonavita@lamp.ac.uk | More information
Dr Robert Shail
Robert’s principle areas of research interest are British cinema of the 1960s and 1970s and representations of masculinity in Hollywood and British cinema. He is currently working on a
monograph on the British director Tony Richardson for Manchester University Press.
Email: r.shail@lamp.ac.uk | More information
Professor Andrew Prescott
Andrew’s scholarship investigates the intersection between historical textuality and the understanding of cultural and social development. This is expressed in his work on the history of libraries and archives and in his articles on the textuality of historical documents.
Email: a.prescott@lamp.ac.uk
Dic Edwards
Dic’s research relates to the field of theatre.
He is a playwright and poet. His first full length play was produced in 1982 and since 1985 he has had a professional production every year somewhere in the UK.
Email: d.edwards@lamp.ac.uk | More information
Dr William Marx
William’s research interests are mainly in the field of medieval studies, including manuscript studies, the editing of Middle English and Latin texts and the literature of history. His current focus is on chronicle writing and devotional literature.
Email: w.marx@lamp.ac.uk | More information
Dr Peter Mitchell
Peter’s scholarship falls within the fields of early modern literature (focusing on the works of John Donne and Phineas Fletcher) and the cultural and intellectual history, philosophy and theology of medicine, mind and body, particularly anatomy.
Email: p.mitchell@lamp.ac.uk | More information
Dr Matt Briggs
Matt’s research interests cover the fields of television, media and cultural studies. His special areas of focus include audience research, children’s television and teen media culture.
Email: m.briggs@lamp.ac.uk | More information
Professor David Cockburn
David has a long record of scholarship and publication. His research areas include Hume, Wittgenstein, and the philosophy of mind, time, causation and ethics.
Email: d.cockburn@lamp.ac.uk | More information
Dr. James Luchte
James’ research interests include the full range of Continental and European philosophy, embracing Early Greek thought, Early German Romanticism, Kant and German Idealism, American Transcendentalism, Nietzsche, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Post-structuralism, Wittgenstein and the Continental tradition, and Contemporary Continental Political Philosophy.
Email: j.luchte@lamp.ac.uk | More information
Dr Chris Arthur
The main area of research interest for Chris is in religion and the media, along with aspects of religious pluralism and methodology in religious studies. He is also an internationally renowned essayist with a concern for notions of cultural identity.
Email: c.arthur@lamp.ac.uk | More information
Dr Matthew Jarvis
Matthew’s research focuses on Welsh poetry in English since the 1960s and on British avant-garde poetry of the same era. He is particularly interested in environmental approaches to literature, and in ideas about the construction of Welsh space and place.
Email: m.jarvis@lamp.ac.uk | More information
Dr Rebecca Ferguson
Rebecca Ferguson’s research and publications have covered the fields of eighteenth-century satire, the interrelations of the visual and the verbal, and the works of Toni Morrison.
Email: r.ferguson@lamp.ac.uk | More information
Dr Lloyd Strickland
Lloyd's principal research interests are in Early Modern European Philosophy, and Philosophy of Religion, with particular emphasis on the philosophies of Leibniz and Wolff, the philosophical contributions of women in the early modern period, eschatology, and the project of theodicy.
Email: l.strickland@lamp.ac.uk | More information
Dr David Morgans
David's research interests lie in Modern European Philosophy, Cultural studies, Wittgenstein, and the interface between Analytic and Continental Philosophy. His current research is in the relationship between subject, self-identity and consciousness and the influence (or not) of such theories on social issues.
Email: d.morgans@lamp.ac.uk | More information