Our Project Team
Dr Elizabeth English
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Dr Elizabeth English is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She is the author of Lesbian Modernism: Censorship, Sexuality and Genre Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and co-editor of Interrogating Lesbian Modernism: Histories, Forms, Genres (Edinburgh University Press, 2023, with Jana Funke and Sarah Parker). She has published articles in journals such as Women: A Cultural Review and, most recently, an essay on ‘Orwell and Katharine Burdekin’ in The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell (Oxford University Press, 2025).
Prof Jana Funke
University of Exeter
Jana Funke is Professor of Modern Literature and Sexuality Studies at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on the history of sexuality and sexual science, modernist literature, and queer-lesbian-feminist-trans history, culture, and theory. Books include Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture (2011, co-edited with Ben Davies), The World and Other Unpublished Works by Radclyffe Hall (2016), Sculpture, Sexuality and History: Encounters in Literature, Culture and the Arts (2018, co-edited with Jen Grove), Interrogating Lesbian Modernism: Histories, Forms, Genres (Edinburgh University Press, 2023, co-edited with Elizabeth English and Sarah Parker), and the first scholarly edition of Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (Oxford University Press, 2024, co-edited with Hannah Roche). Past projects include Transvengers (funded by the Wellcome Trust); Rethinking Sexology (funded by the Wellcome Trust); Adventures in Time and Gender (funded by the Wellcome Trust); and Out and About: Queering the Museum at RAMM (funded by the NLHF).
Victoria Iglikowski-Broad
The National Archives
Vicky Iglikowski-Broad is the Principal Records Specialist in Diverse Histories at The National Archives, where she has worked since 2012. Vicky’s research interests encompass the history of gender and sexuality, as well as 20th-century social change and protest through government records. Her recent work includes exploring the struggles of LGBT+ Switchboard to register as a charity, queer interpretations of Virginia Woolf’s death duty record, and the archival origins of the word “camp.” Vicky has pioneered public engagement activities, leading projects like the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act and Suffrage 100. Past projects have involved collaborating to recreate a 1930s queer venue and organising performances of queer classified adverts.
Professor Sarah Parker
Loughborough University
Sarah Parker is Professor of English, Sexuality and Visual Culture at Loughborough University. She is the author of Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895–1922 (Routledge, 2024) and The Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity (Routledge, 2013). She is co-editor of Interrogating Lesbian Modernism (Edinburgh University Press, 2023, with Jana Funke and Elizabeth English), Michael Field, For That Moment Only and Other Prose Works (MHRA, 2022, with Alex Murray) and Michael Field: Decadent Moderns (Ohio University Press, 2019, with Ana Parejo Vadillo). In 2023, she co-curated an exhibition on women poets and fashion entitled Poets in Vogue at National Poetry Library in the Southbank Centre, London.
Dr Hannah Roche
University of York
Dr Hannah Roche is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of York. She is the author of The Outside Thing: Modernist Lesbian Romance (Columbia University Press, 2019; a Choice Outstanding Academic Title) and co-editor of the first Oxford World’s Classics edition of Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (with Jana Funke, Oxford University Press, 2024) and Literary Narratives of Coercive Control (with Katherine Mullin, Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2027). She is currently writing a book about queer domesticities and ‘companion reading’, which brings Hall into conversation with a range of critically neglected writers including Norah James and Naomi Jacob (and their pets). Hannah’s most recent article on Hall is available here.
Campbell X
Film Writer/Director
Vicky Iglikowski-Broad is the Principal Records Specialist in Diverse Histories at The National Archives, where she has worked since 2012. Vicky’s research interests encompass the history of gender and sexuality, as well as 20th-century social change and protest through government records. Her recent work includes exploring the struggles of LGBT+ Switchboard to register as a charity, queer interpretations of Virginia Woolf’s death duty record, and the archival origins of the word “camp.” Vicky has pioneered public engagement activities, leading projects like the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act and Suffrage 100. Past projects have involved collaborating to recreate a 1930s queer venue and organising performances of queer classified adverts.
Vivienne Bates
University of Exeter
Vivienne Bates is the Project Coordinator on a part-time basis, dedicating one day per week to her role. She has been a member of the University of Exeter since January 2013 and brings a wealth of experience from her previous positions in similar research projects. Her background includes expertise in managing budgets, contracts, and interpersonal relationships from her prior work in social housing.