At present, Dr. Johanson is completing a scholarly edition of eighteenth-century adaptations of Shakespeare for Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Additionally, she is also completing a monograph based on her PhD thesis (“A Rhetoric of Nostalgia on the English Stage, 1587-1605”). This monograph explores how nostalgia was articulated as a political discourse in early modern English drama, whilst placing it alongside ideas of agency and temporality in this period. She welcomes PhD students interested in working on early modern literature (1500-1800) and on projects concerning politics, rhetoric, the history of emotions, temporality, nostalgia, and idealized spaces.

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She has organized several international conferences, including Critical Finance, (Stockholm, 2013) and frequently speaks at conferences, most recently at the University of Malta on addiction and games.

Dr. Goggin has co-edited The Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature, and publishes on gambling, addiction and finance in various media. She is currently writing a cultural history of Hollywood and Las Vegas.

She serves on research counsels (NWO, AHRC, HERA), reviews for numerous presses and journals, and sits on the editorial board of Homo Ludens.

She supervises theses on various media and most recently examined a PhD on Dickens in BBC adaptations at Paris-Diderot.

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Dr. van Dam van Isseltâ€s interest in formal discourse analysis originated in her work as a teacher trainer and in her search for a coherent framework to describe what happens during a lesson or lecture. For her Ph.D in 1993, she zoomed in on the two first English lessons (EFL) given to a class at a Dutch secondary school, and used Polyanyi & Schaâ€s Linguistic Discourse model to articulate what she called ‘the classroom machineâ€: a metaphor to trace and model the multiple framing and reframing practices that institutional multiparty discourse is prone to.

Most recently, Dr. van Dam van Isselt co-edited Ecology of Language Acquisition, which addressed the tension between static closed-system models of Language Acquisition and a growing attention to its situatedness: the acquirer’s extensive interaction with their environment – spatial, social and cultural.

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Dr. Lewtyâ€s areas of specialty are Contemporary American poetry and transatlantic Modernism, both of which she teaches in the department at undergraduate and graduate level. She is currently working on a second collection of her poetry; her poems have appeared in many US journals such as The Boston Review and Jubilat.

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Ms. Kousbroek was raised bilingually and studied English literature in Dublin, Ireland. She received her BA in English Literature and MA in American Literature with first class honors from University College Dublin and her M.Phil in Comparative Literature from Trinity College, Dublin.

Her research interests are the contemporary (American) novel, modernism, postmodernism and authors from the interwar period.

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Dr. Moore was co-editor of the last two volumes of The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge UP, 2007), and edited Conrad’s last novel, Suspense (2011), for the Cambridge edition. He also co-authored the Oxford Reader’s Companion to Conrad (Oxford, 2000), and published a casebook on Heart of Darkness with Oxford University Press (2004).  For seventeen years, Dr. Moore was a Contributing Editor to The Conradian: Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.), and he has edited a special issue of The Faulkner Journal on the subject of “Faulkner’s ‘Indians.'”

Dr. Mooreâ€s main research interests are in modernism and literary theory, with particular attention to the works of Joseph Conrad, William Faulkner and Ford Madox Ford. Other interests include narratology, film adaptation, textual editing, and historical research.

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His book Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age was published by Zero Books in December 2012. He currently works as an assistant professor of popular culture and cultural theory in the English Department, and is a frequent public lecturer on contemporary film, adaptation theory, animation and digital cinema, urban studies, and theoretical approaches to popular culture. He also teaches at Amsterdam University College. All of his work is informed by a critical approach to commodity culture and globalized capitalism, with a special focus on the political and ideological implications of fantasy genres.

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Anne Banninkâ€s research interests include discourse studies, second/foreign language acquisition, anthropology of education and intercultural communication. She is also the coordinator of the ACLC research group Institutional Discourse.

Anne taught courses in internationalization programs in Vietnam, Bulgaria, Italy, Slovakia , Vietnam and the Czech Republic. And she has published papers on classroom and lecture hall discourse in international journals.

Most recently, she has been collaborating with Jet van Dam van Isselt on a project funded by ICTO, which aims to make the interactional behaviour of expert and gifted university teachers visible and more analytically transparent. The end product of this project will be an electronic learning environment for novice university teachers that zooms in on evidence of active student participation and structural features of situated learning in video recordings of authentic lectures and seminars.

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Dr. MacDonaldâ€s research focuses on Victorian literature, gender, and sexuality. She is currently completing a monograph on the New Man in the Victorian novel due to be published by Pickering and Chatto, and has begun a new project on sensation novels of the 1860s. Additionally, she is currently the reviews editor for the Wilkie Collins Journal. She primarily supervises PhD projects in Victorian literature, gothic and sensation fiction, women’s writing, and neo-Victorian literature.

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Although Dr. Glitz began his studies in Heidelberg and Berlin, his degrees are from Cambridge (M.Phil in European Literature at King’s College) and Oxford (M.St and D.Phil in English Literature at Corpus), where he spent most of his student life and eventually obtained his PhD. He is currently working on various smaller projects, including an interpretation of a poem by Weldon Kees, some remaining issues regarding Nietzsche’s philosophy of language, and an article on feral children and precariousness in science fiction narratives. His primary and long-term interest, however, lies in the politics behind and literary constructions of generational and age group identities. He is happy to supervise theses on Victorian and twentieth-century novels, poetry (any period), sociological theory and its relation to literature, and questions regarding analytical philosophy.

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