Research

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 recently housed 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. Please visit the staff member's profile pages in Literature, Linguistics and Creative Writing for details on individual staff research activities. At a collaborative level, research is organized within nine research groups. Please visit the research group pages for further details.

Our research groups also highlight our areas of PhD supervision expertise. This ranges 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 further details, please visit the research group pages, our PG research pages or contact Professor Richard Terry.