English Studies PhD

We are one of few university English departments in the world who teach and research in literature produced in Britain from the early medieval period to the present day as well as in anglophone literature from across the globe.Your first step in your application is usually to find an appropriate supervisor. You can visit our staff pages or try browsing our interactive network map that shows which staff relate to different fields of interest, periods, genres, or interdisciplinary areas. These include:Medieval and Early Modern LiteratureRomanticism and Nineteenth-Century StudiesModernism and PostmodernismPostcolonial Literature and TheoryGender and Sexuality StudiesLiterature and the EnvironmentMedical HumanitiesDigital HumanitiesCreative Writing (with critical component)You will usually be allocated a primary and secondary supervisor with complementary expertise to your own interests.Supervisors and researchers increasingly work in an interdisciplinary way too. You may also find an intellectual home within one of the University's research centres and institutes, such as the Institute for Medical Humanities, Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, or Centre for Culture and Ecology.