English

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

• “Ethnic” American writing
• Canadian literature
• North American indigenous writing
• North American queer writing
• Contemporary reading communities
• Contemporary North American language poetry
• Performance art and the theatre
• Literature and/of/as protest or crisis
• North American border fiction and border studies

Dr Corinne Fowler

• British Black and British Asian literary cultures
• Creative-critical and critical-creative writing
• Regional writing and publishing
• Rural racism
• The postcolonial countryside
• Travel writing

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

Professor Martin Stannard

• 20th-century British Catholic writing - e.g., Greene, Spark, Waugh, etc
• 20th-century non-fiction
• Modernism
• Modern literature and aesthetics/theology
• Theory of biography
• Modern scholarly editing

Dr Victoria Stewart

• Writing from and about the First and Second World Wars
• Holocaust writing
• Mid-20th-century novel
• Non-canonical authors, the ‘middlebrow’, and detective fiction

Dr Cathleen Waters

• English varieties and variation in English around the world
• Language variation and change
• Quantitative sociolinguistics

Dr Harry Whitehead

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

Dr Philip Shaw

• Old English language and literature
• Pre-Christian religion and conversion in the Germanic-speaking world
• English place names
• Onomastics

Dr Cathleen Waters

• English varieties and variation in English around the world
• Language variation and change (lexical, morpho-syntactic and discourse-pragmatic)
• Quantitative sociolinguistics

Dr David Clark

• Gender and sexuality in medieval literature
• Old English and Old Norse literature
• Reception of the middle Ages in literature and film

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 Corinne Fowler

• British Black and British Asian Literary cultures
• Travel writing
• British Muslim writing
• Kurdish literature in English
• Rural racism
• Regional writing and publishing, especially Manchester and the midlands
• Postcolonial feminism

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 Victoria Stewart

• Writing from and about the First and Second World Wars
• Holocaust writing
• Mid 20th-century novel
• Non-canonical authors, the ‘middlebrow’, and detective fiction

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 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
• Pepys, Defoe, Swift

Dr Mary Ann Lund

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

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 early novel
• History of reading
• 17th- and early 18th-century life writing
• Oral and manuscript cultures
• News and pamphleteering
• Behn, Defoe, and Swift

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 Martin Stannard

• 20th-century British Catholic writing - e.g., Greene, Spark, Waugh, etc
• 20th-century non-fiction
• Modernism
• Modern literature and aesthetics/theology
• Theory of biography
• Modern scholarly editing

Dr Victoria Stewart

• Writing from and about the First and Second World Wars
• Holocaust writing
• Mid-20th-century novel
• Non-canonical authors, the ‘middlebrow’, and detective fiction

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 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 Victoria Stewart

• Writing from and about the First and Second World Wars
• Holocaust Writing
• Mid 20th-Century Novel
• Non-Canonical Authors, the ‘Middlebrow’, and Detective Fiction

Dr David Clark

• Gender and sexuality in medieval literature
• Old English and Old Norse literature
• Reception of the middle ages in literature and film

Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy

• Medieval and Renaissance wisdom literature
• Medieval and Renaissance iconology
• Medieval and Renaissance literature and political theology/canon Law
• Medieval and Renaissance romance
• Langland, Chaucer, and the Gawain-Poet
• Influence of monasticism and the religious orders on literature, 1200-1500
• Medieval mysticism and the influence of Neo-Platonism in particular
• 19th- and 20th-century medievalism, especially James Joyce

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 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

Dr David Clark

• Gender and sexuality in medieval literature
• Old English and Old Norse literature
• Reception of the middle ages in literature and film

Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy

• Medieval and Renaissance wisdom literature
• Medieval and Renaissance iconology
• Medieval and Renaissance literature and political theology/canon law
• Medieval and Renaissance romance
• Langland, Chaucer, and the Gawain-Poet
• Influence of monasticism and the religious orders on literature 1200-1500
• Medieval mysticism and the influence of Neo-Platonism
• 19th-and 20th-century medievalism, especially James Joyce

Dr Ben Parsons

• Medieval and early modern comic forms
• Chaucer and his reputation and reception
• Textual editing and translation
• The roles of violence in medieval culture
• Medieval popular culture
• Adolescence, youth and education
• Popular religion and anticlericalism
• Cultural links between England and northern Europe
• The supernatural in medieval and early modern culture

Dr Philip Shaw

• Old English language and literature
• Pre-Christian religion and conversion in the Germanic-speaking world
• English place-names
• Onomastics

Professor Gordon Campbell

• Richard Hooker
• John Milton
• Matteo Boiardo
• Scandinavian drama
• Modern travel writing
• Modern Islamic world

Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy

• Medieval and Renaissance wisdom literature
• Medieval and Renaissance iconology
• Medieval and Renaissance literature and political theology/canon law
• Medieval and Renaissance romance
• Langland, Chaucer, and the Gawain-Poet
• Influence of monasticism and the religious orders on literature 1200-1500
• Medieval mysticism and the influence of Neo-Platonism
• 19th- and 20th-century medievalism, especially James Joyce

Professor Martin Dzelzainis

• John Milton
• Andrew Marvell
• Literature and politics
• Republicanism
• Print culture
• Libertinism

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 early novel
• The history of reading
• 17th- and early 18th-century life writing
• Oral and manuscript cultures
• News and pamphleteering
• Pepys, Defoe, Swift

Dr Mary Ann Lund

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

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