Question: Which professor from Bath Spa University wrote a collection of short stories that inspired an ITV drama called Grantchester?
Context: Lansdown is a suburb of the World Heritage City of Bath, England, that extends northwards from the city centre up a hill of the same name.  Among its most distinctive architectural features are Lansdown Crescent and Sion Hill Place, which includes a campus of Bath Spa University. John Strachan (born 12 April 1961) is a literary critic, historian and poet, Professor of English and Vice Provost at Bath Spa University, England.  He was educated at the University of Southampton and Oxford University.  Strachan specialises in Romanticism and is author of "Poetry", which was released in 2000 by Edinburgh University Press.  He has published numerous articles in the fields of history, sport studies and poetry.  In 2013 he collaborated with numerous artists and poets to create "Their Colours and their Forms: Artists' Responses to Wordsworth", which included some of his own poetry.  He lives in Bath, Somerset.  As an author, he is widely held in libraries worldwide. Gündüz Kaliç is a theatre director, acting coach and actor especially interested in the renewal of theatre as popular gathering.  Awarded the title Professor of Theatre by Bath Spa University, UK where he worked until late 2008, Kaliç's career has centred on play based actor training, theatre for non-theatregoers and radical political theatre.  Over five decades, he has worked in Turkey, Greece, the UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Canada and India and taught and / or collaborated with a broad range of artists - including actors, directors, poets, writers, composers, songwriters, singers, musicians, Applied Drama workers, cabaret artists, designers, painters and sculptors. Grantchester is an ITV detective drama, set in the 1950s Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester, near Cambridge.  It was first broadcast in 2014.  The show features Anglican vicar Sidney Chambers (James Norton), who develops a sideline in sleuthing with the help of Detective Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green).  The series is based on "The Grantchester Mysteries", collections of short stories written by James Runcie.  The first series was based on the six stories from the first book, "Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death".  A second series was commissioned in late 2014 and broadcast in March and April 2016.  A third series was announced in August 2016 and began airing on 23 April 2017. Bath Spa University is a public university in Bath, England, with its main campus based at Newton Park on Duchy of Cornwall land.  The University has other campuses in the city of Bath, and one at Corsham Court in Wiltshire. James Robert Runcie (born May 1959 in Cambridge) is a British novelist, documentary film-maker, television producer and playwright.  He is Commissioning Editor for Arts on BBC Radio 4, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and visiting professor at Bath Spa University.  Runcie was educated at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. Bath School of Art and Design is an art college in Bath, England.  It forms part of the Bath Spa University whose main campus is located a few miles from the City at Newton Park, near Corston, Somerset. Aminatta Forna, OBE (born 1964) is a Scottish writer.  She is the author of a memoir, "", and three novels: "Ancestor Stones" (2006), "The Memory of Love" (2010) and "The Hired Man" (2013).  Her novel "The Memory of Love" was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for "Best Book" in 2011, and was also shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.  Forna is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and was, until recently, Sterling Brown Distinguished Visiting Professor at Williams College in Massachusetts.  She is currently Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University. Newton Park is an 18th-century grade I listed country house in the parish of Newton St Loe, Somerset, England, situated 4 mi west of Bath.  It was built in 1762–5 by Joseph Langton (grandson of Joseph Langton (c.1637–1719), of Newton Park, Member of Parliament for Bath from 1690 to 1695,) to the design of Stiff Leadbetter and is currently home to the administrative staff of Bath Spa University.  The house was used as a Red Cross hospital to house Australian and New Zealand troops in World War I. Tessa Jane Hadley {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'FRSL', '4': "} (born 28 February 1956; née Nichols) is a British author of novels, short stories and non-fiction.  Her writing is realistic and often focuses on family relationships.  Her novels have twice reached the longlists of the Orange Prize and the Wales Book of the Year, and in 2016, she won one of the Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes for fiction.  The Windham–Campbell judges describe her as "one of English's ﬁnest contemporary writers" and state that her writing "brilliantly illuminates ordinary lives with extraordinary prose that is superbly controlled, psychologically acute, and subtly powerful."  As of 2016, she is professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University.
Answer: James Runcie