Academic staff
| Name | Position | Telephone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Rob Banham | Head of Department | +44 (0) 118 378 6399 | r.e.banham@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Ruth Blacksell |
Associate Professor (part-time) | +44 (0) 118 378 8081 | r.e.blacksell@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Josefina Bravo | Lecturer (part-time) | +44 (0) 118 378 6398 | j.bravo@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Christopher Burke | Principal Research Fellow (part-time) | +44 (0) 118 378 6209 | c.burke@reading.ac.uk |
| Ms Sara Chapman | Lecturer (part-time) | +44 (0) 118 378 6207 | s.k.chapman@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Victor Gaultney | Lecturer (part-time) | j.gaultney@reading.ac.uk | |
| Dr Borna Izadpanah | Lecturer (part-time) | +44 (0) 118 378 8081 | borna.izadpanah@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Eric Kindel | Professor | +44 (0) 118 378 8082 | e.t.kindel@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Gerry Leonidas | Professor (part-time) | +44 (0) 118 378 6397 | g.leonidas@reading.ac.uk |
| Mr James Lloyd | Lecturer | +44 (0) 118 378 4906 | j.c.lloyd@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Fiona Ross | Professor (part-time) | +44 (0) 118 378 8081 | f.g.e.ross@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Fred Smeijers | Professor (part-time) | +44 (0) 118 378 7624 | f.r.j.smeijers@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Irmi Wachendorff | Associate Professor | +44 (0) 118 378 6209 | irmi.wachendorff@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Sue Walker | Professor (part-time) | +44 (0) 118 378 7219 | s.f.walker@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Rachel Warner | Lecturer (part-time) | +44 (0) 118 378 6209 | r.e.warner@reading.ac.uk |
| Mr Geoff Wyeth | Lecturer | +44 (0) 118 378 4906 | g.m.wyeth@reading.ac.uk |
Honorary and Emeritus staff
| Name | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Alison Black | Professor Emerita | a.black@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Mary Dyson | Senior Visiting Research Fellow | mary.dyson@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Paul Luna | Emeritus Professor | p.luna@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Riccardo Olocco | Visiting Research Fellow | r.olocco2@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Rick Poynor | Emeritus Professor | r.poynor@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Vaibhav Singh | Visiting Research Fellow | vaibhav.singh@reading.ac.uk |
Administrative staff
| Name | Position | Telephone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria Gifford | Executive Support Administrator | +44 (0) 118 378 8081 | v.gifford@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Emma Minns | Assistant Curator | +44 (0) 118 378 4324 | e.h.minns@reading.ac.uk |
Doctoral researchers
| Name | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| Hanan Alshawi | Bi-scriptual typography and visual communication in Saudi Arabia: from early printing to digital practice (1900–2020) | h.s.a.alshawi@pgr.reading.ac.uk |
| Najla Badran | Diacritics in the Arabic script and typography: development of form and placement over time and technologies | n.m.i.g.badran@pgr.reading.ac.uk |
| Yue Chen | Exploration and implementation of typography for the 'ideographic Yi' | yue.chen@pgr.reading.ac.uk |
| Hanny Imania | Investigating the transformative shifts in the representation of Javanese script | k.l.imania@pgr.reading.ac.uk |
| Fernando de Moraes Caro | The Haas type foundry in the context of the Swiss Style and the transformation of typesetting technology (1944–1989) | f.demoraescaro@pgr.reading.ac.uk |
| Yuseon Park | Understanding the evolution of Hangeul typefaces in response to technological changes and new document genres | y.park@pgr.reading.ac.uk |
| Clàudia Rifaterra Amenós | Letterpress political posters from the Spanish Second Republic in Barcelona (April 1931–July 1936) | c.rifaterraamenos@pgr.reading.ac.uk |
| Isabel Stoole | Images of women in print production advertisements, 1945–85 | i.stoole@pgr.reading.ac.uk |
| Xicheng Yang | Remaking the Tangut script: new paradigms in designing digital typefaces for extinct writing systems | xicheng.yang@pgr.reading.ac.uk |
| Ring Yong | Typographical variations in Chinese print: missionaries, metal type and printing press in late imperial China (1800–1860) | r.yong@pgr.reading.ac.uk |
| Abeera Zishan | Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Urdu online: Lahori NastaÊ¿lÄ«q as a case study for the realisation of a multi-lingual world wide web | a.zishan@pgr.reading.ac.uk |