Dinah Birch is a pro-vice chancellor and professor of English at the University of Liverpool. She has written extensively on John Ruskin, as well as Dickens, Tennyson and the Brontës, and is the ...

Dinah Birch Dinah Birch is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Impact; Professor of English Literature at The University of Liverpool.

Birch, an academic at Liverpool, has allowed in even fewer memorable opinions, though I did enjoy the new description of Kieron Smith, Boy, the Glaswegian novelist James Kelman’s latest novel ...