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Staff Profile

  • Claire Allen is currently a Senior Lecturer in English. Claire plays a full teaching and research role with experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels across the programme. She currently designs and delivers core modules at levels four, five, six, and seven as a dissertation and PhD supervisor.

    Claire earned her PhD in contemporary London literature at the University of Northampton in 2011. Claire has previously worked at Birmingham City University as an associate lecturer specialising in both Modern British Fiction and Children’s Literature as well as at the Centre for Academic Practice at the University of Northampton. Claire is a Fellow of the HEA. She also runs the English podcast ‘Shelf Concerns’.