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Find a research supervisor in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Our research on eighteenth-century literature embodies a wide conception of the literate culture of the period.

We have a strong tradition of research on the leading writers of the period, notably Pope and Swift, including substantial editing projects. At the same time, we explore key developments within eighteenth-century literate culture more widely, including examining the reception of earlier writers such as Jonson and Shakespeare; teasing out interactions between literature and visual art in the period; re-evaluating the literary forgeries of Macpherson’s Ossian and Chatterton’s Rowley; and considering how dictionaries helped to form new relationships between literature and language more widely.

  • David Griffith

    Senior Lecturer in English Medieval Studies

    Department of English Literature

  • Gillian Wright

    Professor of English and Irish Literature

    Department of English Literature, Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing

  • Dr Louise Curran

    Associate Professor in Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century English Literature

    Department of English Literature

  • Jessica Fay

    Teaching Fellow in Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Century English Literature

    Department of English Literature

  • Dr Matthew Ward

    Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature

    Department of English Literature

  • Hugh Adlington

    Professor of English Literature

    Department of English Literature