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Joe Bray is Professor of Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield's School of English, where he has been Head of School since September 2018. He joined the university in 2005 after previous academic positions at the University of Stirling (2000-2005) and the University of Strathclyde (1997-1999). His educational background includes a PhD (1997), MPhil in General Linguistics, and BA in English, all from the University of Cambridge.
Bray's research specializes in literary stylistics, with a focus on narrative techniques in 18th and early 19th-century fiction. His work examines epistolary novels, female readership representations, portraiture in fiction, and Jane Austen's stylistic innovations. Additional interests include book history, textual culture, and experimental literature, evidenced by his co-editorship of The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature.
His recent publications demonstrate sustained engagement with Jane Austen's stylistic legacy, adaptation studies, and the intersection of visual arts with Romantic literature. Work from 2016-2024 shows concentrated focus on portraiture as narrative device, epistolary fiction evolution, and Austen's linguistic patterns, while exploring broader themes of gender representation and literary adaptation in contemporary culture.
Bray actively supervises PhD researchers, guiding projects on Jane Austen's narrative techniques, Brontë autobiographical fiction, Cormac McCarthy's style, and 19th-century Shakespeare adaptations. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses including 'Narrative Style in the Contemporary Novel' and 'Narrative and Cognition', emphasizing stylistic analysis across literary periods.
