Postgraduate research
English
20th Century and Contemporary Studies
- Caribbean literature and popular culture
- Postcolonial literatures and cultures
- Postcolonial theory
- Diasporic and transcultural writing
- Black British and British Asian writing
- Crime writing and representations of crime
- Representations of community
- American poetry 1850 to the present
- British poetry 1850 to the present
- Contemporary poetry - mainstream and/or experimental
- Any aspect of poetic form, metre, or genre
- Any aspect of autobiography in English, post-1800
- Modern and contemporary writing, especially North American
- Border studies and border literatures and cultures of the Americas
- Global border studies and theory
- Citizenship and nationhood
- Indigenous literatures
- Vulnerability, care, risk, resilience, protest, and crisis
- Gender-based violence, especially in the Americas
- Childhood studies
- Theories and practices of reading and the reader
- American novels and short stories of the 20th/21st century
- Representations of adolescence in written and visual culture
- J. D. Salinger and his contemporaries, including John Cheever, Shirley Jackson, Richard Yates, Carson McCullers, William Styron
- Representations of HIV/AIDS in written and visual culture
- American modernist poetry
- Graphic novels
- Postwar American writing
- American film 1945-2000
- 1950s and 1960s American culture
- American and European modernism
- American intellectual history
- Transatlantic literature and culture
- The avant-garde
- American visual culture
- Literary adaptations
- Disability and modern/contemporary culture
- American ethnicity and race
- American pragmatism
- History of American psychology and psychoanalysis
- Genre
- The 'state of the nation' novel
- Jewish-American fiction
- Fictions of New York City
- Lost Generation writers
- Transatlantic literary and cultural relations
- American regional writing
- Contemporary women's writing
- Contemporary British fiction
- Queer fiction
- Masculinity
- The 1980s
- Joe Orton
- Literature and war
- 20th-century narrative fiction
- Art and aesthetics
- Literature and psychoanalysis
- Popular music
- Creative writing
- Colonial, postcolonial, and cross-cultural writing
Creative Writing
- Creative writing projects relating to the global environmental emergency
- Creative writing projects that directly engage with the natural world
- Creative writing from, or engaged with, worlds beyond the Global North.
innovative genre fiction
- Memoir and autobiography
- Prose fiction
- Poetry
- Music and writing
- Comedy, laughter and writing
- Critical and creative projects related to poetic form and metre
- Critical and creative projects related to editing contemporary poetry
- Poetry writing projects across the full spectrum of contemporary practice, formalist to experimental
Gender and Sexuality
- Caribbean literature and popular culture
- Postcolonial literatures and cultures
- Postcolonial theory
- Diasporic and transcultural writing
- Black British and British Asian writing
- Crime writing and representations of crime
- Representations of community
- American novels and short stories of the 20th/21st century
- Representations of adolescence in written and visual culture
- J. D. Salinger and his contemporaries, including John Cheever, Shirley Jackson, Richard Yates, Carson McCullers, William Styron
- Representations of HIV/AIDS in written and visual culture
- American modernist poetry
- Graphic novels
- Charles Lamb, Charles Lloyd, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and their circle
- Writing of the 1790s
- Religious dissent in the 18th and 19th centuries, including but not limited to Unitarianism
- Life writing, biography, and autobiography in the 18th and 19th centuries
- Contemporary women's writing
- Contemporary British fiction
- Queer fiction
- Masculinity
- The 1980s
- Modern and contemporary writing, especially North American
- Border studies and border literatures and cultures of the Americas
- Global border studies and theory
- Citizenship and nationhood
- Indigenous literatures
- Vulnerability, care, risk, resilience, protest, and crisis
- Gender-based violence, especially in the Americas
- Childhood studies
- Theories and practices of reading and the reader
History of the Book
- Mid-to Late Victorian Literature
- Literature and Science
- Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Writing
- 19th Century Journalism and Print Culture
- Charles Lamb, Charles Lloyd, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and their Circle
- Writing of the 1790s
- Religious Dissent in the 18th and 19th Centuries, including but not limited to Unitarianism
- Life-Writing, Biography, and Autobiography in the 18th and 19th Centuries
- Editing and Textual Studies
- Renaissance and Early Modern Palaeographical Studies
- The history of reading
- Restoration and early eighteenth-century literature
- Samuel Pepys
- The early novel
- Early modern London
- Early modern news culture
- Historical novels
- John Donne
- Editing Texts
- Renaissance Medicine and Illness Writing
- Print Publication
- History of Reading
- Editing medieval texts
- Print and popular culture
- Medieval palaeography
Life Writing
- American poetry 1850 to the present
- British poetry 1850 to the present
- Contemporary poetry - mainstream and/or experimental
- Any aspect of poetic form, metre, or genre
- Any aspect of autobiography in English, post-1800
- Charles Lamb, Charles Lloyd, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and their circle
- Writing of the 1790s
- Religious dissent in the 18th and 19th centuries, including but not limited to Unitarianism
- Life writing, biography, and autobiography in the 18th and 19th centuries
- The history of reading
- Restoration and eraly eighteenth-century literature
- Samuel Pepys
- The early novel
- Early modern London
- Early modern news culture
- Historical novels
- Romantic and Victorian literature, especially biographical or autobiographical writing in the period c. 1790-1900
- Biographical projects
- Drugs in literature, especially 19th Century
- Romantic and Victorian writers
- Literary culture of the 1830s
- 19th-century domesticity
- 19th-century literature and portraiture
- The Brontes
Literature and Adolescence
- Caribbean literature and popular culture
- Black British writing
- Comparative postcolonial literature and theory
- Readerships and publishing history
- American novels and short stories of the 20th/21st century
- Representations of adolescence in written and visual culture
- J. D. Salinger and his contemporaries, including John Cheever, Shirley Jackson, Richard Yates, Carson McCullers, William Styron
- Representations of HIV/AIDS in written and visual culture
- American modernist poetry
- Graphic novels
- Renaissance and early modern literature, especially drama and poetry
- Universities and Inns of Court
- Neo-Latin literature
- Early modern translation
- Reception of the classical tradition in early modern England
- The early history of education
- Medieval conceptions of childhood and adolescence
- Medicine and the human life cycle
- Violence and young people
- Modern and contemporary writing, especially North American
- Border studies and border literatures and cultures of the Americas
- Global border studies and theory
- Citizenship and nationhood
- Indigenous literatures
- Vulnerability, care, risk, resilience, protest, and crisis
- Gender-based violence, especially in the Americas
- Childhood studies
- Theories and practices of reading and the reader
Literature and War
- Literature and War
- 20th Century Narrative Fiction
- British Romantic Poetry and Prose
- Wordsworth and Byron
- Romanticism and War
- Art and Aesthetics
- Literature and Psychoanalysis
- Modern and contemporary writing, especially North American
- Border studies and border literatures and cultures of the Americas
- Global border studies and theory
- Citizenship and nationhood
- Indigenous literatures
- Vulnerability, care, risk, resilience, protest, and crisis
- Gender-based violence, especially in the Americas
- Childhood studies
- Theories and practices of reading and the reader
Literature, Art and Film
- Post-war American writing
- American film 1945-2000
- 1950s and 1960s American culture
- American and European modernism
- American intellectual history
- Transatlantic literature and culture
- The avant-garde
- American visual culture
- Literary adaptations
- Disability and modern/contemporary culture
- American ethnicity and race
- American pragmatism
- History of American psychology and psychoanalysis
- Shakespeare and silent film
- Film adaptation of Renaissance and early modern plays
- Romantic and Victorian literature, especially biographical or autobiographical writing in the period c. 1790-1900
- Biographical projects
- Drugs in literature, especially 19th Century
- Romantic and Victorian writers
- Literary culture of the 1830s
- 19th-century domesticity
- 19th-century literature and portraiture
- The Brontes
- 18th- and 19th-century literature and visual culture
- Art and war
- Art and aesthetics
- Modern and contemporary writing, especially North American
- Border studies and border literatures and cultures of the Americas
- Global border studies and theory
- Citizenship and nationhood
- Indigenous literatures
- Vulnerability, care, risk, resilience, protest, and crisis
- Gender-based violence, especially in the Americas
- Childhood studies
- Theories and practices of reading and the reader
Literature, Medicine and Science
- Medicine and Literature in the Mid 19th to Early 20th Century
- 19th Century Science and Literature
- History of Surgery
- Gender and Medicine
- Mid- to Late Victorian Literature
- Literature and Science
- Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Writing
- 19th Century Journalism and Print Culture
- Post-War American Writing
- American Film 1945-2000
- 1950s and 1960s American Culture
- American and European Modernism
- American Intellectual History
- Transatlantic Literature and Culture
- The Avant-Garde
- American Visual Culture
- Literary Adaptations
- Disability and Modern/Contemporary Culture
- American Ethnicity and Race
- American Pragmatism
- History of American Psychology and Psychoanalysis
- The early novel
- The history of reading
- Seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century life writing
- Early modern oral and manuscript cultures
- Seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century news and pamphleteering
- The Royal Society in the seventeenth century
- Renaissance medicine and illness writing
- Literature, War, and Medicine in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
- Reception of the classical tradition in early modern England
- Renaissance and early modern literature, especially drama and poetry
- Schools, universities, and Inns of Court
- Neo-Latin literature
- Early modern translation
- Editing and textual studies
- Comparative literature (English, French, Greek, Italian)
- Rhetoric and pedagogy
- The history of reading
- Restoration and early eighteenth-century literature
- Samuel Pepys
- The early novel
- Early modern London
- Early modern news culture
- Historical novels
- John Donne
- Editing texts
- Renaissance medicine and illness writing
- Print publication
- History of reading
- Geoffrey Chaucer and his reception and reputation
- Animal studies
- Folklore
- Crime and literature
- Mental illness
- Popular religion
- Comedy and satire
Romantic and Victorian Studies
- Medicine and literature in the mid 19th to early 20th century
- 19th-century science and literature
- History of surgery
- Gender and medicine
- Mid- to late-Victorian literature
- Literature and science
- Pre-Raphaelite and aesthetic writing
- 19th century journalism and print Culture
- Charles Lamb, Charles Lloyd, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and their circle
- Writing of the 1790s
- Religious dissent in the 18th and 19th centuries, including but not limited to Unitarianism
- Life writing, biography, and autobiography in the 18th and 19th centuries
- Romantic and Victorian literature, especially biographical work of Charles and Mary Lamb, Charles Lloyd, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and their circle
- Writing of the 1790s
- Religious dissent in the 18th and 19th centuries, including but not limited to Unitarianism
- Women writers of religious dissent, including Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Mary Hays, Harriet Martineau, Amelia Opie, Elizabeth Gaskell
- Life writing, biography, and autobiography in the 18th and 19th centuries to biographical writing in the period c. 1790-1900
- Biographical projects
- Drugs in literature, especially 19th-century
- Romantic and Victorian writers
- Literary culture of the 1830s
- 19th-century domesticity
- British Romantic poetry and prose
- Wordsworth and Byron
- Romanticism and war
- Art and aesthetics
- Literature and psychoanalysis
- Popular music
- Charles Dickens
- Mid-Victorian fiction
- Death culture, mourning, and commemoration
- Material culture