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The Project Team

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 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
Dr Christiana Gregoriou is an English Language lecturer at Leeds University’s School of English. She is a specialist in crime fiction stylistics, and employs critical linguistic analysis to the study of crime fiction, but also other crime-related discourse (including media texts and the true crime genre). She is currently exploring adaptations for her third monograph, contracted with Bloomsbury: Crime Fiction Migration: Crossing Languages, Media, Cultures (forthcoming 2017).
CO-INVESTIGATORS:

 Dr Charlotte Beyer, Senior Lecturer in English Studies at University of Gloucestershire.  I am a contemporary literature specialist, with a background in gender and women's studies. My scholarship concerns itself with primarily with crime fiction and ethical and gender-political questions explored the genre.  My forthcoming edited book, Teaching Crime Fiction (contracted with Palgrave) examines crime fiction teaching and learning.  I am also active in motherhood studies and am co-editing two books for Demeter Press.  
Dr Melissa Dearey, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Hull. My academic background is in philosophy and cultural theory, and I am particularly interested in the links between deviance, art/aesthetics and social change. My published research has focused on the analysis of popular cultural forms like dance, auto/biography, true crime, reality tv, game shows, music videos, prisoner writing, etc. My current teaching and research are in the areas of cultural criminology, true crime, evil and green criminology.
Dr Nina Muzdeka, Assistant Professor of English and American Literature, University of Novi Sad, Serbia.   Nina's research interests are contemporary British literature, genre theory, narratology, magic(al) realism, literary translation.  
Ilse Ras, Postgraduate Research Assistant. I am currently completing my PhD at the University of Leeds on the topic of representations of corporate fraud. I’m a corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analyst and have research interests in language and power, particularly in the role of (news) media in crime and the criminal justice system. I have an MSc in Criminology from the University of Leicester and am particularly interested in white-collar, corporate, and organised crime. I am furthermore the co-founder of the Crime Writing Special Interest Group at the international Poetics and Linguistics Association conference.
  
Bernie Gravett, Specialist Policing Consultancy. Bernie Gravett is the director of Specialist Policing Consultancy Ltd.  which delivers consultancy services and training to UK and European law enforcement agencies. Bernie Gravett is also a Senior EU expert in combating transnational organised crime and human trafficking.  Specialist Policing Consultancy Ltd is partners with a number of organisations, including Anti-Slavery International and ECPAT UK.  Bernie Gravett was previously  employed as Police Superintendent for the Metropolitan Police, and has a long track record  in the investigation, supervision and direction of serious and complex criminal investigations, both in the UK and overseas.
  

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