We offer a vibrant, supportive and inclusive research community for students working on research projects in English Literature and/or Language, Creative Writing and Gender Studies. Students are encouraged to attend and present at research seminars, symposia and training events within the Faculty and University, and at national and international academic conferences. English academics have also hosted a range of successful international conferences, including the biannual Talking Bodies conference.

We are particularly keen to hear from students researching in the following areas:

- Shakespeare

- Romanticism

- Nineteenth-century literature and culture

- South African literature

- Irish literature

- American literature

- Historical fiction

- Gender and sexuality

- Queer and disability representation in literature and on screen

- Fanfiction

- Fashion, costume and textiles

- Crime writing

- Children’s literature and Young Adult fiction

- Creative writing (including flash fiction, short stories, novels, poetry, and scriptwriting)

- Language typology, grammar and syntax

- Language and power

- Corpus linguistics

- Historical linguistics

- Sociolinguistics and discourse analysis