Research
Research Degrees
In addition to taught postgraduate courses, English offers research degrees leading to the award of an MPhil/PhD.
The research culture in English encompasses all staff and postgraduate students and is proactive in developing interdisciplinary links within the University, nationally and internationally. Main research interests include:
- Old and Middle English
- Romantic/Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Fiction
- Modernism
- 20th- and 21st-Century Literature, Culture and Film
- Comics and Graphic Novels
- Postcolonial
- American Writing
- Scottish Writing
For example:
- Professor Kirsty Gunn, Professor of Creative Writing, is a novelist whose The Boy and the Sea won the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award for 2007
- Dr Brian Hoyle has research and publishing interests in subjects such as Post-War British Art Cinema and Literature
- Professor Peter Kitson (President of The English Association and the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS)), is an acknowledged authority on the Romantic Period and its literature
- Dr Gail Low publishes in the area of post-colonial literature and publishing history
- Dr Tim Morris publishes on American Modernist Poetry, especially Wallace Stevens
- Dr Chris Murray is a widely renowned comics lecturer and researcher, with particular interest in British comics writers such as Alan Moore, Grant Morrison and Neil Gaiman, and film and popular culture
- Dr Anthony Paraskeva has research interests in the relations between literature, theatre and cinema, with a focus on writers, filmmakers and dramatists
- Professor Andrew Roberts is a specialist on Contemporary British Poetry, especially Geoffrey Hill and avant garde/'linguistically innovative' poetry, including digital poetry
- Dr Aliki Varvogli is an Americanist who has published on Paul Auster's Fiction
- Dr Keith Williams publishes extensively on the relations between literary writing and film and media in the first half of the Twentieth Century
Further details of staff research interests are available on individual staff profile pages, and some student research profiles are available on the English postgraduate website.
Research Projects
Our academic staff are involved in a range of ongoing research projects, including:
- Professor Peter Kitson has been awarded a Major Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2010-2012) to research his project on cultural exchange between Britain, China and the Far East in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 2011 he was also awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitation Fellowship as a part of this project. Read our news story.
- Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text, Cognition (Dr Andrew Roberts). See the project website, read our news story, or visit the AHRC Beyond Text website.
- Investigating the archive: An interdisciplinary enquiry into the concept and role of archives (Dr Gail Low). Read our news story.
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