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School of English
Research expertise and supervision

Research expertise and supervision

The School of English has particular expertise in, and welcomes applications from, students wishing to undertake postgraduate research in a wide range of areas:

  • Text-editing and literary history from the medieval period to the present day (including pre- and post-Conquest, the Renaissance, the Long Eighteenth Century, Romanticism, the Nineteenth Century, Modernism, and the Contemporary)
  • Regional literatures and cultures, especially Irish and Scottish writing
  • Global and Postcolonial literatures, including the literature of British India
  • Individual authors including: Jonathan Swift, Robert Southey, Charles Dickens, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, D. H. Lawrence, Seán O’Casey, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Geoffrey Hill, David Dabydeen, Caryl Phillips, Zadie Smith, Angela Carter
  • Drama of all periods, including drama as performance, playwriting, digital performance, theatre history and historiography, Shakespeare and the Shakespeare Apocrypha, Futurism, modernism, theories of reception, study of audiences, theatrical place and space
  • Applied linguistics, English language teaching, literary linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, professional communication, language, gender and sexuality
  • Historical language study of English and other Germanic languages
  • Name-studies, including English and Scandinavian place-names, and personal names
  • Older Scots language, literature, culture and book history, and also Scottish Latin, from c.1350 to c.1700; individual authors include James I, Robert Henryson, Gavin Douglas, David Lynsay, Marie Maitland
  • Old Norse and Viking Studies, including runology, eddic and skaldic poetry, place- and personal names, saga studies, and Vikings in Britain and Ireland
  • Health Humanities, including the study of health and illness in Early Medieval England and the Scandinavian Middle Ages, studies of healthcare texts and disease, the language of healthcare, multimodal approaches to health communication, and the critical study of gender-based health issues 
  • Creative Writing

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Expertise and supervision areas by language and period

Contemporary

 

Eighteenth Century

 
 

Middle English

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Nineteenth Century

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Old English and Early Medieval England

 
 

Old Norse and the Viking Age

 

Older Scots

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Romantics

 
 

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

 

Twentieth Century

 
 

Expertise and supervision areas by genre or approach

 

Business English and Health Communication

 

Comparative and World Literature

 

Corpus Linguistics

 
 

Creative Writing

 

Critical Theory

 

Cultural Geography

 
 

Cultural Materialism

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Drama and Performance

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Ethical Criticism

 
 

Fictional Prose and the Novel

 

Gender Studies

 

Historiography

 
 

Language Learning Pedagogy

 

Medievalism

 
 

Modernism and Postmodernism

 

Name-studies

      • Professor 
      • Professor 
 

Non-fictional and Historical Prose

 
 

Poetry


  • Professor 
 

Psycholinguistics

 
 

Sociolinguistics

 

Spoken Discourse and Discourse Analysis

 
 

Text Editing

      • Professor
 

The Bible

 
 

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