Research themes

English

Our work covers a wide portfolio of Literature, Language and Creative Writing. We're interested in representations and conceptualisations of key issues like gender and sexuality, class, race, and ability/disability; the activities of reading communities and their political, national and religious identities; the possibilities of new kinds of textuality (including through multimodality and digital technologies); and the critical conceptualisation of our relationships with the environment in a time of climate crisis.

We have five main themes:

Early Modern Literary Studies
Modern Literature
Stylistics
Language, Literacy and Social Structure
Contemporary Creativity

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History

We specialise in modern and contemporary history from the late eighteenth century. Our vision is a global one, and we make distinctive contributions in six key areas:

Transnational histories and imperial encounters
War, violence and society
Labour and social movements
Women, gender and sexuality
Race and ethnicity
Business and finance

Film and Performance

We have three main research groups:

Film and television
Theatre and performance
Scriptwriting for stage and screen

We specialise in American, British and Irish, East Asian and European cinemas, adaptation, documentary, horror and television; and in applied theatre, contemporary British playwriting, site-based performance, and performance and phenomenology. Several members of the team engage with practice-as-research methodologies, including scriptwriting.