English
RAE 2008 - the results
See how our english language and literature research scored in the Research and Assessment Exercise 2008.
RAE 2008 results for english language and literature – UoA 57
Literature
Research leader: Dr Andrew Maunder
In the recent Research Assessment exercise (2008) English Literature was one of the Units recognized for its international excellence in research and publication (90 per cent of its output judged to be of `international quality’).
It has won external funding from such bodies as the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Higher Education Academy English Subject Centre.
Apart from its on-site research seminars the Unit has been home to several major conferences. It has hosted such key events as the inaugural conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies and a number of events with the HEA English Subject Centre.
This year it will host Romanticism and the Periodical in the Long Eighteenth Century, 27th-29th July 2009.
Research Clusters
The Unit works within three broad research clusters:
Place, Community and Environment
(Rowland Hughes, Janice Norwood, Pat Wheeler)
Work within this cluster includes projects with a local, national and international focus, with a shared interest in formations of collective or individual identities.
Science, Religion and Technology
(Gavin Budge, Sam George, Jennifer Young)
This cluster is interested in the cross-fertilization of science and literature in writings from the 18th century to the present and in the dialogues and debates that occur in sciences and literary texts and creative writing.
Readers, Genres and Print
(Graham Holderness, Andrew Maunder, Penny Pritchard, Anna Tripp)
This Group focuses on the histories of authors, authorship, publishing, and textual editing. Particular interests include sixteenth and seventeenth-century literature, especially Shakespeare and Daniel Defoe; the history of reading between about 1800 and 1918; literary reputations; World War I and the relationship between reading and propaganda.
We can offer PhD supervision in any of the above areas. Please consult staff web pages for more details.
