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Dr Emma Cavell (e.cavell@swansea.ac.uk) or
Professor Daniel Power (d.j.power@swansea.ac.uk)
Management Board
- Dr Emma Cavell (Director; on leave TB1 2023-4)
- Professor Daniel Power (Acting Director TB1 202304)
- Professor Liz Herbert McAvoy
- Professor John Spurr
- Professor Deborah Youngs
Academic Staff
- Dr Emma Cavell
- Dr Catherine Fletcher
- Dr Stefan Halikowski-Smith
- Dr Richard Hall
- Professor Mark Humphries
- Dr Leighton James
- Dr Simon John
- Dr Alexander Langlands
- Dr Roberta Magnani
- Dr Irina Metzler
- Dr Eugene Miakinkov
- Dr Adam Mosley
- Dr Teresa Phipps
- Dr Eoin Price
- Dr Charlie Rozier
- Professor Patricia Skinner
- Dr Matthew Stevens
- Dr Nicholas Taylor-Collins
- Professor David Turner
- Dr Alison Williams
- Dr Laura Kalas Williams
Honorary Research Associates
- Dr Daisy Black
Specialises in medieval religious drama and has a particular interest in time and gender. Her other research interests include periodization and memory; medieval depictions of Jews and Saracens; narratives of cannibalism and medievalism in modern board game culture. She also works works as a theatre director and playwright, and her dramatic adaptation of 'The Bayeux Tapestry' has been performed at Kalamazoo’s International Medieval Congress.
- Dr Emily Cook
Received her doctorate from the University of Adelaide in 2013, for a thesis entitled Exchanging Flesh: Prostitution and Plastic Surgery in Seventeenth-Century England. She has published on topics in the history of surgery, disease, and prostitution, and was a Research Assistant at the University of Winchester on the project 'Effaced from History? The Disfigured and their Stories from Antiquity to the Present Day'.
- Dr Theresa Tyers
Completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham (School of History). Her doctoral dissertation included research of a wide range of medical codices which were produced during the period c.1200 and 1500 and focussed on the changes that had taken place during the transmission from their Latin source text into the vernacular. She has since worked as a Research Assistant on the medieval Hortus Conclusus project (PI Liz Herbert McAvoy).
Research Students
- Hillary Burgardt (History)
- Geraldine Gnych (History)
- Sylvie Jans (English)
- Ubaldo Morozzi (History)
- Jack Orchard (English)
- Jeongkyu Park (History)
- Emily Payton (English)
- Jessica Rosenthal McGrath (History)
- Rhiannon Sandy (History)
- Kevin Tracey (History)
- Kathryn Webb (English)
- Ruth Worgan (English)
- Maria Zygogianni (English)
Emeriti
- Professor Emeritus Gino Bedani
- Professor Emerita Catherine Belsey
- Professor Emeritus Ceri Davies
- Dr Hugh Dunthorne
- Professor Emeritus John France
- Professor Emeritus Ralph Griffiths
- Professor Emerita Christine James
- Dr John Law
- Mr Glyn Pursglove
