Research Activities

English Literature, Linguistics & Creative Writing is strongly committed to research across our three main areas of activity: literature, linguistics, and creative writing. In the last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008), all of our research was classed as being of at least ‘nationally recognized’ quality, with a proportion being graded in the highest category of ‘world leading’. Several members of our staff have won funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and we currently house the ‘>Before Depression>’ research project, a three-year investigation of the experience and representation of depression in the eighteenth century, funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

English Literature, Linguistics & Creative Writing has been invigorated by the recent appointment of fifteen highly research active staff, and this has led to a significant growth in the range of our research interests and activities. Research is currently organized within six groupings, with three main themes linking up researchers between the groups: these themes are the construction of gender, the historical representation of ill-health, and urban cultures. We offer PhD supervision from the Renaissance onwards including American and other literatures in English, as well as in selective aspects of language study, including cognitive and historical linguistics. We also particularly welcome enquiries for PhDs in Creative Writing. For a full range of our supervisory expertise, check the research groups below. For further details, please contact >richard.terry@northumbria.ac.uk

Research Groups:

Early Modern Group

Long Eighteenth Century Group

Modernist Studies / Contemporary Cultures Group

English Language and Linguistics Group

Creative Writing Group

English Pedagogies Group