Faculty Supporting Our Programs in London

Dr. Morgan Daniels

Instructor, History
LONS HIUK 130 History of Modern Britain
Morgan Daniels holds a Ph.D. from Queen Mary, University of London. His work focused on the effects of “antiestablishment” BBC comedy on politicians, the public and broadcasting values circa 1939-1973. He also holds a Masters in Twentieth Century British History from Queen Mary, University of London. His teaching and research interests include Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; constitutional history; theories and histories of comedy and satire; British and American radio, television and film; and queer history/theory.
Recent Publications:
Who is a biting satirist?, Unofficial Histories, May 2012, Bishopsgate Institute.
Satire and Childishness, English Literature Seminar Series, February 2012, University of Westminster.
Ken Tynan’s “That Word” file, and what I found there, Picture This: Postcards and Letters Beyond Text, March 2011, University of Sussex.
That Was the Week That Was and religious values: a duty dance with denigration, The Horror, The Humour: Satire and Dark Comedy in a Postmodern World, October 2010, University of Lincoln.
Notes towards a historical materialist appreciation of humour, Histfest, May 2010, University of Lancaster.
Zeitnot: history as fetish, Truth and Lies, June 2009, University of Bangor.

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Dr. Laura Higgins

Instructor, Theater
LONS DTSH 180 Introduction to Shakespeare in Text and Performance
Laura Higgins holds a Ph.D. in Drama and Theater from Royal Holloway University of London. She also holds a Masters in Theater: Text and Production (Distinction) from University of East Anglia, Norwich. Her research and teaching focus primarily on the investigation of Shakespeare’s plays in performance and their potential meanings and cultural work, both in their original historical moment and in successive contexts, particularly present day. In addition to her publications and presentations, she has taught at Royal Holloway University of London and tutored in university language programs in both England and Spain. She is fluent in both English and Spanish.

Her research also involves the examination of a wide range of theater ephemera held in archives; interviews with actors, directors and designers; and the analysis of live theater performances she experiences personally. She is interested in further developing the links with cultural geography she established through her Doctoral thesis and in exploring the staging of ghosts and the supernatural in early modern plays.

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Dr. Jeff Higley

Instructor, Interdisciplinary
LONS AREC 181 Environment, Communities and the Arts in Britain
Jeff Higley is a wood sculptor, musician, teacher and film-maker. He received his Ph.D. studies at Queen Mary College, University of London. His BA is in English and Drama at Hull University. Recently, he has been engaged in co-authoring a chapter in a new Routledge publication Drama Therapy with Children, Young People and Schools. According to its editor Lauraine Leigh, the book is considered "as an essential purchase, ambitious, comprehensive, with a combination of readable vignettes or practice, theoretical considerations, research and policy perspectives . . . providing a course book for students and professionals in training and in practice." This book was published in 2012. In terms of Environment, Community and the Arts, he has been researching urban food growing and the role of this process in primary education. This work has covered both practical and theoretical aspects of the subject and will form part of the syllabus for the course for its next outing. He led a group of visiting Arcadia students to one of the sites where he has been working with other artists and a landscape designer and gardener.

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Dr. Denis Judd

Instructor, History
LONS HIEC 273S The Rise and Fall of the British Empire and the Emergence of the Commonwealth, C1800 - 1965
LONS HIEC 273 The Rise and Fall of the British Empire and the Emergence of the Commonwealth, C1800 - 1965
Denis Judd earned his Ph.D. at London University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Professor Emeritus of History at London Metropolitan University, and currently Professor of History at New York University in London. His teaching has centred upon the History of the British Empire and Commonwealth from the American Revolution to Decolonisation, British History during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and European Imperialism – at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

He has published over 25 books including the biographies of Joseph Chamberlain, George V, Prince Philip, A. J. Balfour, Jawaharlal Nehru, George VI, Lord Reading, and the children’s writer Alison Uttley, books on historical and military subjects, stories for children, and two novels. He has reviewed and written extensively in the national and international press and written several programmes for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. He is an occasional adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and is often interviewed for national and international television and radio.

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Prof. Carl Levy

Instructor, Political Science
LONS PSUK 251 Britain and the EU
Carl Levy holds a Ph.D. in History and a Masters in International History from London School of Economics and Political Science. His research activities have focused upon the comparative study of European societies in the nineteenth and twentieth century with a specialization in Italian affairs. He has straddled the disciplines of history, politics and sociology. In this respect, his research interests incorporate aspects of Contemporary History, the History of Ideas, Political Economy, Political Sociology and Political Institutions. Since being appointed a Lecturer in European Politics at Goldsmiths College in 1991 (Senior Lecturer, 2000, Reader, 2003 and Professor, 2012), his interests in European integration have deepened considerably. He is widely published, is a member of various cultural societies, and has been interviewed numerous times on CNN and ITV-ITN regarding current affairs in the UK, EU, and beyond.

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Dr. Richard Maguire

Instructor, Interdisciplinary
LONS LISG 320 Sex, Gender and the City
Richard Maguire received his PhD from King’s College London. His thesis was entitled ‘The Last of the Queer Romantics: Mourning and Melancholia in Gay Men’s Autobiography’. Concentrating on unresolved grief from the AIDS crisis in the West at the end of the twentieth-century, and the theoretical loss of the self that some poststructuralist thought espouses, he examined autobiography in different forms: the poetry of Mark Doty, the films of Derek Jarman, the artwork by David Wojnarowicz and the performances of Franko B. His teaching primarily focuses on sexuality, feminism and queer theory in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature. He is especially interested in autobiography, and the construction of the self through art. He also teaches American Fiction, and fin de siècle literature at King’s College. He was invited to speak at Somerset House in 2012 on queer futures as part of the Inside/Out Festival and he is currently organizing a year-long series of events to be held across London to commemorate the life and work of Derek Jarman during 2013/14.
Recent Publications:
Book Chapter: "The Relics of St. David Wojnarowicz: The Autobiography of a Mythmaker" in R. Bradford (ed.) Life Writing Essays on Autobiography, Biography and Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Extended Book Reviews:
Sally R Munt, Queer Attachments: the Cultural Politics of Shame (Ashgate, 2008), GJSS: Graduate Journal of Social Science 6.1 (April 2009)
Denis Flannery, On Sibling Love: Queer Attachment and American Writing (Ashgate, 2007), Textual Practice, 22.3 (2008)

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Veronique Mistiaen

Instructor, Journalism
LONS JPLN 110 Journalism: News and Feature Writing
Veronique Mistiaen earned her MA of Journalism from University of California, Berkeley. She holds BAs with honors in both Criminology and Communications from the University of Louvain, Belgium. She has been a freelance journalist since 1992 writing about social issues and trends, human rights, development, health and the environment for leading newspapers and magazines in the UK and US. She also works on media projects with NGOs, such as Plan International, Oxfam and the Aegis Trust. She has performed editorial duties for Le Journal Français d'Amérique, San Francisco, CA. Plexus, and Connexions, both in Oakland, CA. In 1989, she was nominated by the Boston Herald for a Pulitzer Prize. She was awarded first prize from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for natural resources reporting, also in 1989.
Recent works:
They are destroying Michelangelo's mountain to make toothpaste, Reader's Digest, July 2011. A 2,500-word investigation into the destruction of the precious Carrara marble mountain in Tuscany.
Economist online, May, 2011: 1000-word article on the revival of the Ultimate Victorian Travel Guide for Women by the Royal Geographic Society.
Guardian, Saturday May 21, 2011:  1,800-word article on Ursula Sladek who won the 2011 Goldman environmental Prize for creating one of the first green energy co-op in Europe.
My Uncle, the Tyrant, New Internationalist, March 02, 2011. 'Uncle' Saddam was a constant and sinister presence in Zainab Salbi's childhood years. She grew up determined to fight injustice and to speak out and went on to found humanitarian organization Women for Women International.
Mothers of the Soil, The Caravan, India, February 2013.  A widely popular reality television show in Tanzania turns the spotlight on women who feed the world.
I’m a farmer, get me out of here – Farming in Tanzania, Economist online, December 18, 2012.
Iran, 1988 – Judgment Time, Economist online, October 30, 2012.  The Iran Tribunal ruled that the Islamic Republic of Iran has committed crimes against humanity during the bloody decades of the 1980s.
Interview with Kushal Chakrabarti – The self-confessed geek turned education hero explains why microfinancing student loans in the Majority World adds up, New Internationalist, September 2012.
Hackney Youths Revisit UK Riots, Huffington Post, August 17, 2012.
Don’t Poison our Olympics, Huffington Post,  July 25, 2012.
They are destroying Michelangelo's mountain to make toothpaste, Reader's Digest, July 2011. A 2,500-word investigation into the destruction of the precious Carrara marble mountain in Tuscany.

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Dr. Ryan Powell

Instructor, Film
LONS MSFC 210 Filming the City
Ryan Powell received his Ph.D. in Film Studies from King's College, University of London with a dissertation entitled "Man Country: A Social History of Seventies Gay Cinema." He earned his MA in American Studies with Film University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk and his BA in English and American Literature from The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, USA. In addition to his work with Arcadia, he lectures in film studies at London Metropolitan University and King's College London. He is an invited presenter for conferences and symposia on film, most recently the Tate Modern symposia, British Film Institute's 2008 London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, and Queering the Countryside Conference at the University of Indiana, Bloomington, USA.
Recent Publications:
"Costume and Movement in James Bidgood's Pink Narcissus (1970)." in Rare Birds of Paradise: Costume, Movement and Fantasy between the Stage and the Screen (working title), ed. Marketa Uhlirova (Columbia University Press, Forthcoming Spring 2011).
"Nowhere Home: Radical Gay Rurality in Song of the Loon (Andrew Herbert, 1970)."
Little Joe: A magazine about queers and cinema. Vol. 1/Issue 1 (May 2010). "Putting on the Red Dress: Reading Performative Camp in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955)." Forum. (University of Edinburgh.) Issue 4. Autumn 2006.

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Douglas Ray

Instructor, Film
LONS MSFC 210 Filming the City
Douglas Ray works primarily as a writer and director of films and commercials. He has directed over 100 commercials, sponsorship idents, promos and corporate films. Recent work includes BT sponsors Wild at Heart on ITV1 (AMV BBDO), Pedigree sponsors Dog Rescue on ITV1 (TBWA), PC World sponsors drama on Virgin 1 (M&C Saatchi/Addiction). He also produces sponsored television programming such as HSBC Moving Stories for Sky, Comic Relief Schools Campaign for BBC/ComicRelief, Nike Run London featuring Paula Radcliffe for Nike/AKQA and National Lottery Euromillions for Camelot/Blink Productions. He wrote and directed a short film Get Off My Land funded by the UK Film Council starred Robert Glenister, Rafe Spall and Ruth Wilson. The film had its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. It has since screened at over 40 film festivals. He is also a screenwriter. His current projects include two feature films:  the psychological thriller Nightline developed with FilmFour on which he serves as co-writer and Sergeant Slaughter, starring Tom Hardy. He is also writing and directing a documentary on One Hyde Park, Knightsbridge for the National Geographic Channel. Douglas Ray received his film production training at the National Film & Television School and holds a BSc in Politics and Sociology from Bristol University.

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Dr. Jyoti Saraswati

Instructor, Political Economy
LONS HIRP 350S Developing Economies: Social, Political and Economic Change
In addition to teaching International Political Economy on the Business and Political Economy (BPE) Program at the Stern School of Business, New York University, Dr Jyoti Saraswati is Director of the Beyond the Developmental State Working Group for the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE). His research is primarily focused on the political economy of emerging markets in Asia, particularly as it pertains to capital formation in, and the emergence of transnational corporations from, India and China. He is author of Dot.compradors: Power and Policy in the Development of the Indian Software Industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and co-editor of Beyond the Developmental State: Industrial Policy into the 21st Century (Pluto Press, 2013) and publishes regularly in prominent academic journals and respected news outlets including Economic and Political Weekly, Third World Quarterly, Development Viewpoint, and Open Democracy.

Prior to entering academia, Dr Saraswati worked across public and private sectors in both the UK and Japan and continues to write for, and provide consultancy to, a number of major international organizations and private corporations, including the European Commission, World Bank, and the International Institute for Asian Studies. Most recently he has been working with the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Program in devising an International Political Economy course for the EC-funded Masters in Global Governance and Sustainability to be offered at universities across five European countries from 2014 onwards. Dr Saraswati has also taught at the Department of International Development, Oxford University, and the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London. He is currently writing an international economics textbook centred on presenting a practical, rather than theoretical, guide to the structures of, and system within, the global economy.

Dr. Laurence Scott

Instructor, Literature and Creative Writing
LONS ENCW 210 Creative Writing: The Art of Fiction
LONS EEWL 107 - Writing London
Laurence Scott is a writer and academic who teaches English and Creative Writing at Arcadia. In 2011 he was named one of ten New Generation Thinkers by BBC Radio 3 in collaboration with the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Since then, he has contributed to Radio 3’s The Essay, the arts and ideas programme Night Waves, and he has written and presented a forty-five minute documentary for Radio 3’s Sunday Feature based on his research. He has published literary essays in publications such as the London Review of Books and Five Dials, and his criticism appears regularly in the Guardian, the Financial Times, and the Times Literary Supplement. Laurence holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from King’s College London. His thesis is entitled "A Tale of Two Terrors – the aesthetics of terror in the novels of London and Paris (1840 - 1945)." He completed an MPhil in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin in 2003. Recent scholarly publications include: "Transcendence and female subjectivity in the aesthetics of Virginia Woolf and André Breton," forthcoming in Textual Practice and "Notes on Fran: The Ethical Camp and Mute Elegiac of Fran Lebowitz," in Performance Ethos, 2.2 (2011), pp. 121-135.

Dr. Philip Woods

Instructor, Sociology
LONS SOSL 384S Britain and Slavery, 1562-1865
LONS SOSL 384 Britain and Slavery, 1562-1865
Dr Philip Woods teaches the course on Britain and Slavery. Until recently, he taught at Kingston University, London where he was also Academic Advisor in the European and Study Abroad Office. He studied History at the London School of Economics and at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His doctorate, which was published, was on British-Indian politics after the First World War. His current research is on the British use of film propaganda in India and he has published in a number of academic journals including Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, South Asia and Indian Horizons.