Mary McNally
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Job title: Senior Lecturer and Admissions Tutor
Email: m.mcnally@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 591491
Room: E718 Kedleston Road
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Faculty: Arts, Design and Technology
School: School of Humanities
Subject Area: English
Admissions Tutor; Level 4 Tutor and School Learning and Teaching Advisor.
Teaching responsibilities
- Shakespeare
- 16th and 17th Century Literature modules (Early Modern Words, Early Modern Worlds; Transgression and Restoration)
- Gender and Identity in Contemporary Literature
- Independent study
Professional interests
The Early Modern Period: especially Shakespeare, Webster, Middleton and Marlowe. Early Modern Women's Writing: particularly Margaret Cavendish, Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Wroth, Mary Sidney and Katherine Phillips. Margaret Atwood, Sarah Waters and Angela Carter. Shakespeare and technology-enhanced learning.
Research interests
Early Modern Women's Writing, especially royal and noble coteries and the movement from Catholicism to Protestantism; female spiritual autobiographies.
International Experience
Teaching in France and PR China.
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
Fellow of the HEA
Undergraduate qualifications
- BA English and French, University of London
Postgraduate qualifications
- PGCE FE/HE, University of Liverpool
- MA in Shakespeare Studies, The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford Upon Avon (University of Birmingham)

