Edward Bujak, PhD (University of East Anglia)
Associate Professor in British Studies and History
Vice Principal for Academic Services
ebujak@harlaxton.ac.uk

Dr Bujak is a graduate of the University of East Anglia (BA, MA, PhD) and joined Harlaxton College as an Assistant Professor 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 Associate Professor. 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 2009 he was appointed Vice-Principal for Academic Services at Harlaxton College and is currently writing a book on landownership in the Edwardian countryside.

David Green, PhD (University of Nottingham)
Teaching Fellow and Team Leader in British Studies
dgreen@harlaxton.ac.uk

Dr Green is a graduate of the universities of Exeter (BA) and Nottingham (MA, PhD). Before joining the British Studies team at Harlaxton in 2007 he lived and worked in England, Scotland and Ireland, lecturing at the universities of Sheffield, St Andrews and Trinity College, Dublin.

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. Dr. Green discusses his research at http://www.medievalists.net/2008/11/14/interview-with-david-green/. He is currently working on a volume on The Hundred Years War for Yale University Press.

Recent publications include Edward the Black Prince: Power in Medieval Europe (Longman, 2007); The Battle of Poitiers, 1356 (The History Press, rev. ed. 2008); The Black Prince (The History Press, rev. ed. 2008); 'Medicine and Masculinity: Thomas Walsingham and the death of the Black Prince', Journal of Medieval History (2009); and 'Lordship and Principality: Ireland and Aquitaine in the 1360s', Journal of British Studies (2008).

Gordon Kingsley, ThD (New Orleans Theological Seminary)
Lecturer in British Studies, and 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.

Dr Helen Snow           
British Studies and English Literature
hsnow@harlaxton.ac.uk

After undergraduate work at Southampton University and her MA and PhD from the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham in Stratford-upon-Avon, Dr Snow first came to Harlaxton in the early 1990s, taking an active part in the creation and early evolution of the British Studies course as well as teaching Shakespeare and other literature, drama, and creative writing courses. After switching to the Open University for some years, both teaching and advising there, she returned to Harlaxton in 2004 and now combines working at the OU with teaching and advising on British Studies here. Her publications and research interests deal with Shakespeare in performance, gender in Shakespeare, and pedagogy and methodology in higher education, particularly in the field of study abroad (cf. also our guest lectures and conferences).

Philip Taylor, PhD (University of Lancaster)          
Teaching Fellow in British Studies
ptaylor@harlaxton.ac.uk

Philip Taylor is a musicologist with interests in English music of the Renaissance period, particularly the work of William Byrd. He has degrees in music from Lancaster University (BA, MMus, PhD) gaining his doctorate in 2008 with the thesis: ‘Music and Recusant Culture: the Paston Manuscript Collection and William Byrd's Songs’. Before arriving at Harlaxton he taught courses in music history and theory at Lancaster University, and he continues to teach as an Associate Lecturer for The Open University. Phil has particular interests in the role of music in interdisciplinary arts and humanities education, and hopes to build on this as part of the British Studies team. As a keen singer and choral director he has led practical workshops on Byrd’s music, and currently runs an early music ensemble at Harlaxton. Current research interests focus on early modern music manuscript culture and word setting in Byrd's secular partsongs.