Dr Robyn Ollett joined the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Law as Part-time Lecturer in 2018 but was made permanant Lecturer of English Studies and Creative Writing in September 2025. She has previously worked at Stirling University, Queen Mary University, and the University of Wolverhampton. Robyn holds a BA (Hons) in English Studies (Teesside), an MA in Modern and Contemporary Studies (University of Newcastle), a PG Certificate in Arts and Humanities (University of Hull) and a Ph.D in English (Teesside). 

Robyn's research interests lie in twenthieth century and contemporary literature, media, and culture and in Gender Studies, Queer Studies and Gothic Studies. Her first monograph, The New Queer Gothic: Reading Queer Girls and Women in Contemporary Fiction and Film, was published in 2024 with the University of Wales Press's Gothic Literary Series. This book proffers The New Queer Gothic as a mode of fiction as well as a reading methods for contmporary fiction dealing in the intersections of queerness, feminism, postcolonialism, hybridity and biopolitics. It has recently been reviewed in The European Journal of Women's Studies.