English Literature and English Language
We undertake world-class research which for English Literature includes the areas of medieval literature, Shakespeare, the Renaissance, Romantic and Victorian literature, modernism, twentieth-century writing, contemporary fiction and drama, women’s poetry, autobiography, working-class writing, literary theory, and postcolonial literatures. In English language, we have areas of expertise in stylistics and cognitive poetics, multimodality and multimodal literature, and lexical semantics and lexicography.
De Montfort University’s English Research Institute exists to undertake investigations into the processes by which literary and historical works have been – and are today – created, disseminated, and consumed. This field includes literary criticism in its various historical, theoretical, and formalist modes, the study of English as a language, and creative writing as research. We specialise in the processes of literary adaptation and in the creation of critical editions of literary and historical works to convey to today’s readers the subtleties of meaning within their histories of creation, dissemination, and consumption. Increasingly these investigations draw upon digital methods, and, having pioneered some of these methods ourselves, we intend to stay at the forefront of their application to textual questions.
The Institute of English at De Montfort University invites applications to the Midlands 4 Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. Members of the Institute specialising in English Literature and Language are listed below.
Contacts
Professor Gabriel Egan, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Director of the Institute of English, Director of the Centre for Textual Studies
gegan@dmu.ac.uk
Shakespeare, early printing, manuscripts, theatre history, cultural theory, digital methods
Professor Tim Fulford, Professor of English
tfulford@dmu.ac.uk
Romanticism, eighteenth-century literature, literature and colonialism, literature and science, Robert Southey, Robert Bloomfield.
Dr Alison Hall
alison.hall@dmu.ac.uk
Pragmatics, philosophy of language, semantics.
Dr Takako Kato
tkato@dmu.ac.uk
Manuscript production and culture, digital methods, Caxton’s printshop, Chaucer, Malory.
Professor Siobhan Keenan, Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature
skeenan@dmu.ac.uk
Early modern theatre history, travelling players, early modern women’s writing.
Dr Bethany Layne
bethany.layne@dmu.ac.uk
Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, biofiction, adaptation, appropriation.
Professor Joe Phelan, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature
JPhelan@dmu.ac.uk
Nineteenth-century poetry, metre and poetic form, colonial writing, Anglo-Italian and Anglo-French literary and cultural relations.
Dr Jamie Sherry, Reader in English
jamie.sherry@dmu.ac.uk
Adaptation, screenwriting, creative industries, the professional and industrial roles of adaptors, screenwriters, authors, and publishers.
Dr Alice Wood
alice.wood@dmu.ac.uk
Twentieth-century literature, modernism, women’s magazines, Virginia Woolf.
Dr Aimee Bailey
aimee.bailey@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: Language, gender and sexuality,; Corpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Multimodality, Online media.
Dr Gabriel Ozon
gabriel.ozon@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE), lexicogrammatical variation, European forms of English, corpus linguistics applications.
Dr Jie Liu
ie.liu@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: Levels of cognitive processing in reading development, interpreting pedagogical practice from sociocultural perspectives, understanding language use and language development from complexity theory, teachers' instruction and learners' deployment of reading strategies.
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