Postgraduate research

English

20th Century and Contemporary Studies

Dr Lucy Evans

  • 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

Mr Nicholas Everett

  • 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

Dr Zalfa Feghali

  • 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

Dr Sarah Graham

  • 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

Professor Martin Halliwell

  • 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

Dr Catherine Morley

  • 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

Dr Emma Parker

  • Contemporary women's writing
  • Contemporary British fiction
  • Queer fiction
  • Masculinity
  • The 1980s
  • Joe Orton

Dr Mark Rawlinson

  • Literature and war
  • 20th-century narrative fiction

Professor Philip Shaw

  • Art and aesthetics
  • Literature and psychoanalysis
  • Popular music 

Dr Harry Whitehead

  • Creative writing
  • Colonial, postcolonial, and cross-cultural writing

 

 

Creative Writing

Dr Harry Whitehead 

  • 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

Dr Jonathan Taylor 

  • Memoir and autobiography
  • Prose fiction
  • Poetry
  • Music and writing
  • Comedy, laughter and writing

Nick Everett

  • 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

Felicity James 

Gender and Sexuality

Dr Lucy Evans

  • 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 

Dr Sarah Graham

  • 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

Dr Felicity James

  • 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

Dr Emma Parker

  • Contemporary women's writing
  • Contemporary British fiction
  • Queer fiction
  • Masculinity
  • The 1980s

Dr Zalfa Feghali 

  • 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

Professor Gowan Dawson

  • Mid-to Late Victorian Literature
  • Literature and Science
  • Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Writing
  • 19th Century Journalism and Print Culture

Dr Felicity James

  • 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

Professor Sarah Knight

  • Editing and Textual Studies
  • Renaissance and Early Modern Palaeographical Studies

Dr Kate Loveman

  • The history of reading
  • Restoration and early eighteenth-century literature
  • Samuel Pepys
  • The early novel
  • Early modern London
  • Early modern news culture
  • Historical novels

Dr Mary Ann Lund

  • John Donne
  • Editing Texts
  • Renaissance Medicine and Illness Writing
  • Print Publication
  • History of Reading

Dr Ben Parsons 

  • Editing medieval texts
  • Print and popular culture
  • Medieval palaeography

 

 

Life Writing

Mr Nicholas Everett

  • 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

Dr Felicity James

  • 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

Dr Kate Loveman

  • The history of reading
  • Restoration and eraly eighteenth-century literature
  • Samuel Pepys
  • The early novel
  • Early modern London
  • Early modern news culture
  • Historical novels

Dr Julian North

  • 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

Dr Lucy Evans

  • Caribbean literature and popular culture
  • Black British writing
  • Comparative postcolonial literature and theory
  • Readerships and publishing history

Dr Sarah Graham

  • 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

Professor Sarah Knight

  • 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

Dr Ben Parsons 

  • 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

Dr Mark Rawlinson

  • Literature and War
  • 20th Century Narrative Fiction

Professor Philip Shaw

  • British Romantic Poetry and Prose
  • Wordsworth and Byron
  • Romanticism and War
  • Art and Aesthetics
  • Literature and Psychoanalysis

Dr Zalfa Feghali 

  • 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

Professor Martin Halliwell

  • 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

Professor Sarah Knight

  • Shakespeare and silent film
  • Film adaptation of Renaissance and early modern plays

Dr Julian North

  • 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

Professor Philip Shaw

  • 18th- and 19th-century literature and visual culture
  • Art and war
  • Art and aesthetics

Dr Zalfa Feghali 

  • 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

Dr Claire Brock

  • Medicine and Literature in the Mid 19th to Early 20th Century
  • 19th Century Science and Literature
  • History of Surgery
  • Gender and Medicine

Professor Gowan Dawson

  • Mid- to Late Victorian Literature
  • Literature and Science
  • Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Writing
  • 19th Century Journalism and Print Culture

Professor Martin Halliwell

  • 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

Dr Kate Loveman

  • 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

Dr Mary Ann Lund

  • Renaissance medicine and illness writing

Professor Philip Shaw

  • Literature, War, and Medicine in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

Professor Sarah Knight

  • 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

Dr Kate Loveman

  • The history of reading
  • Restoration and early eighteenth-century literature
  • Samuel Pepys
  • The early novel
  • Early modern London
  • Early modern news culture
  • Historical novels

Dr Mary Ann Lund

  • John Donne
  • Editing texts
  • Renaissance medicine and illness writing
  • Print publication
  • History of reading

Dr Ben Parsons 

  • Geoffrey Chaucer and his reception and reputation
  • Animal studies
  • Folklore
  • Crime and literature
  • Mental illness
  • Popular religion
  • Comedy and satire
 

 

Romantic and Victorian Studies

Dr Claire Brock

  • Medicine and literature in the mid 19th to early 20th century
  • 19th-century science and literature
  • History of surgery
  • Gender and medicine

Professor Gowan Dawson

  • Mid- to late-Victorian literature
  • Literature and science
  • Pre-Raphaelite and aesthetic writing
  • 19th century journalism and print Culture

Dr Felicity James

  • 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

Dr Julian North

  • 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

Professor Philip Shaw

  • British Romantic poetry and prose
  • Wordsworth and Byron
  • Romanticism and war
  • Art and aesthetics
  • Literature and psychoanalysis
  • Popular music

Dr Claire Wood

  • Charles Dickens
  • Mid-Victorian fiction
  • Death culture, mourning, and commemoration
  • Material culture

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