Graham Baker, DPhil (University of Oxford)
Teaching Fellow in British Studies
gbaker@harlaxton.ac.uk

Dr Baker is a graduate of the universities of Bristol (BA), Oxford Brookes (MA) and Oxford (DPhil). In addition to working at Harlaxton, he is currently teaching two courses in the history of science, technology and medicine at Oxford and is a research associate at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris.

Dr Baker’s research centres on the themes of science, religion, philanthropy and medicine in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain and the United States. He is especially interested in historical intersections between science and popular culture and is currently finalising three journal articles in this area.

Edward Bujak, PhD (University of East Anglia)
Senior Lecturer in British Studies and History
ebujak@harlaxton.ac.uk

Dr Bujak is a graduate of the University of East Anglia (BA, MA, PhD) and joined Harlaxton College as a Lecturer in 2001. In addition to teaching on the British Studies programme, a programme he led from 2004-2009, he teaches courses on British, European and international history and the two world wars.  In 2006, he received the Outstanding Teacher Award of the University of Evansville. In 2007 he was promoted to the rank of Senior Lecturer. His book, England’s Rural Realms: Landownership and the Agricultural Revolution was also published in 2007 by I. B. Tauris. In May 2008, Dr Bujak was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2010 Dr Bujak was invited to become a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is currently writing a book on landownership in the Edwardian countryside.

David Green, PhD (University of Nottingham)
Senior Lecturer and Chair of British Studies
dgreen@harlaxton.ac.uk

Dr Green is a graduate of the universities of Exeter (BA) and Nottingham (MA, PhD). Before coming to Harlaxton in 2007 he lived and worked in England, Scotland and Ireland, lecturing at the universities of Sheffield, St Andrews and Trinity College, Dublin. In 2009 he became Chair of the British Studies program and in 2010 he was appointed Senior Lecturer and a permanent member of the faculty.

A late medieval historian working on Britain, Ireland and France, his research deals with themes central to the British Studies course such as kingship, colonialism and concepts of national identity. He has written three books and numerous articles. Further details of these may be found here: http://www.harlaxton.ac.uk/academics/research/GreenDavid.cfm

He is currently working on a volume for Yale University Press on The Hundred Years War.

Gordon Kingsley, ThD (New Orleans Theological Seminary)
Lecturer in British Studies
Principal
jgkingsley@harlaxton.ac.uk

In a long academic career, Dr Kingsley has been professor of literature and religion at Tulane University, Mississippi College, the University of Louisville, and William Jewell College, all in the United States. At the latter school he also served as academic dean and, for thirteen years, as president. In a study funded by the Exxon Foundation, he was adjudged among the top 5% of America’s 'most effective university leaders'.

He holds degrees from Mississippi College (BA), the University of Missouri (MA), and the New Orleans Theological Seminary (BD, ThD), where his research was conducted jointly at Tulane University. He holds honorary doctorates from Mercer University (LittD), Seinan Gakuin University, Japan (DHum), and the University of Evansville (LHD). Though he describes the college presidency as a 'shortcut to illiteracy', he has managed to produce three books and some 100 articles, monographs, and reviews, chiefly in popular religious subjects.

Caroline Magennis, PhD (Queens University, Belfast)
Teaching Fellow in British Studies and Literature
cmagennis@harlaxton.ac.uk

Dr Magennis is a graduate of Queen’s University, Belfast (BA, MA, PhD). She has held research fellowships at the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s and University College Dublin. Before she joined the faculty at Harlaxton she was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Limerick.

Dr Magennis publishes in the area of modern and contemporary British and Irish literature, and is the author of Sons of Ulster: Masculinities in the Contemporary Northern Irish Novel and co-editor of Irish Masculinities: Reflections on Literature and Culture. She is currently working on a monograph on the representation of the body in Northern Irish literature and culture.

Her full publications list and CV can be found at http://harlaxton.academia.edu/CarolineMagennis

Helen Snow, PhD (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
Lecturer in British Studies and English Literature
hsnow@harlaxton.ac.uk

After undergraduate work at the University of Southampton and her MA and PhD from The Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham, Dr Snow first came to Harlaxton in the early 1990s.  She took an active role in the early years of the British Studies course, particularly in developing its interdisciplinary approach.  She led the teaching team for two years in addition to teaching Shakespeare and other literature courses. 

In 2006, after five years teaching Shakespeare and other arts courses with The Open University, Dr Snow returned to Harlaxton to teach British Studies and, of course, Shakespeare.  Her publications and research interests focus on Shakespeare in performance, gender and Shakespeare, and the ways in which perceptions and presentations of Shakespeare and heritage contribute to ideas of national identity.  Dr Snow is the convenor of “The Harlaxton Players”, and she and her two musical daughters are keen members of The Harlaxton Collegiate Choir.

Dr Snow is on leave during the Spring Semester 2013.