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.
Professor of English Literature
- John Donne and his contemporaries
- Seventeenth-century religious poetry and prose
- John Milton and his contemporaries
- Early modern print and manuscript culture
Associate Professor in Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century English Literature
- Samuel Richardson and epistolary fiction
- Letter-writing and authorial archives
- Literary fame and celebrity
- The novel and prose style
- Life-writing (autobiography, biography, memoir)
Teaching Fellow in Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Century English Literature
I study eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature (chiefly the work of William and Dorothy Wordsworth). I am interested in patterns of formal and generic innovation, and in exploring how memory, imagination, and art shape the identities of places and people.
Senior Lecturer in English Medieval Studies
- Late medieval literature
- Medieval visual culture
- Tudor literature
- Pre-modern drama
- Epigraphy
- First World War
Senior Lecturer in Poetry
- English Poetry
- Romantic-period Writing and its Legacies
- Individualism
- Lyric Voice
Senior Lecturer in English Literature
- Eighteenth-century literature and art
- Romanticism
- Intellectual history
- Aesthetics
- Utopianism
- Scottish literature
Senior Lecturer in English
- Old English literature
- Modern fantasy literature
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Medievalism
- Anglo-Saxon manuscripts
Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Romantic-period writing – especially the Wordsworths, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, John Keats and the cockney-school
- Literary afterlives
- Poetry and poetics across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- Humour and comedy
- Sound studies
- The environment
Senior Lecturer
- Older Scots Literature
- Romance and Arthurian Literature
- Women and the Book in the Middle Ages
- The Trojan Legend/ medieval reception of Classical literature
- Manuscript Studies and Book History
- Magic and the Supernatural Chaucer and Chaucer’s Legacy (including Lydgate and Henryson)
Professor of English and Irish Literature
- Aphra Behn
- Restoration literature
- Early modern women's writing
- Book history
- Samuel Daniel