- We normally offer supervision in the following areas:
- Medieval and Early Modern literature
- 18th-century and Romantic
- Victorian literature
- Modernism
- Postcolonial and Black Atlantic literature
- American literature
- children’s literature
- medical humanities
- poetry criticism
- scholarly editing and animating text
- theatre and performance
- You can see the range of research topics our current students are working on.
- We encourage the use of the archival opportunities offered by our various partner institutions, including the Seven Stories Centre for the Children's Book, the Wordsworth Trust (Dove Cottage), and the Keats-Shelley House in Rome.
- Our Postgraduate Speaker Series, lunchtime Postgraduate Forum seminars, and annual postgraduate conference organised by our postgraduate students all offer you opportunities to network with fellow students and staff and become part of our School research community. You can also take part in a range of university and regional research groups and centres.
- Delivery
- Your work will focus on a single, sustained piece of writing and research. The MPhil thesis is a maximum of 50,000 words and the PhD thesis is a maximum of 100,000 words.