English Literature

Course Structure

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["Dr Tamsin Badcoe, (Lecturer), Early modern book trade; early modern prose fiction, especially the writings of Thomas Nashe; Edmund Spenser and representations of \' space\' (actual and metaphorical) in The Faerie Queene.", \'Dr Jennifer Batt, (Lecturer), 18th-century poetry, particularly the circulation of verse in manuscripts, pamphlets, miscellanies, songbooks, periodicals and newspapers; digital humanities; labouring-class writing.\', \'Professor Andrew Bennett, (Professor), 19th- and 20th-century literature; literary theory; reception and literary reputation; Romantic poetry and poetics; the popular romance and the popular ballad.\', \'Dr Andrew Blades, (Lecturer), 20th century American literature; Aids literature; literature and anxiety; medical humanities.\', \'Dr Stephen Cheeke, (Senior Lecturer), 18th- and 19th-century poetry, especially Shelley and Byron; De Quincey; genre theory; Romanticism and place; writing and history.\', \'Dr Emily Coit, (Lecturer), 19th- and early 20th-century British and American literature; Edith Wharton; Henry James ; prose fiction, especially the novel; transatlantic approaches to literature\', \'Dr Lesel Dawson, (Senior Lecturer), Early modern constructions of lovesickness and melancholy; early modern drama; John Ford; medical history; revenge tragedy; Shakespeare; the representation of women in early literature; Thomas Middleton.\', \'Professor Helen Fulton, (Professor), Arthurian literature; medieval literature and politics; medieval urban culture; medieval Welsh and Irish literatures; Welsh writing in English\', \'Dr Josie Gill, (Lecturer), Black British writing; contemporary fiction; literature and science.\', \'Dr Edward Holberton, (Lecturer), Early American literature and writing connected with early modern colonisation and the Atlantic world; early modern literature and diplomacy; writing of the Civil War period and Restoration (especially Andrew Marvell and John Milton).\', \'Dr Cathy Hume, (Lecturer), Chaucer; interaction of French and English literatures and medieval multilingualism more generally; medieval literature and its social and cultural contexts; reworkings of episodes from the Old Testament in late medieval English verse; the representation of love and marriage in late medieval literature, including Gower.\', \'Dr Stephen James, (Senior Lecturer), Charles Dickens; issues of authority and witness in modern poetry; modern and contemporary poetry, especially Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Robert Lowell, Stevie Smith, Robert Frost; poetry and landscape; refrains and repetitions.\', \'Dr Hester Jones, (Senior Lecturer), 20th-century poetry; Anglo-Welsh literature; early modern writing by women; friendship; gender and identity in 19th- and 20th-century writing; literature and theology.\', \'Professor Daniel Karlin, (Professor), 19th- and 20th-century British, Irish, and American literature, especially Romantic and Victorian poetry and poetics; Anglo-American and Anglo-French literary relations; Bob Dylan; Marcel Proust; Robert Browning; Rudyard Kipling; textual criticism and editorial method.\', \'Dr Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, (Lecturer), 20th and 21st-century women writers; American literature; experimental forms and the avant-garde; modernism, especially from a transnational perspective; political commitment; the archive; theories of feminism, gender, and sexuality; visual culture; writing on war.\', \'Dr Madhu Krishnan, (Lecturer), Affect; African literature in French; ethics and literature; global literary systems; literary value; literature and politics; postcolonial literature of the 20th and 21st centuries; prize culture; space and place.\', \'Dr John Lee, (Senior Lecturer), English Renaissance drama; Greek tragedy; Kipling; Shakespeare; some constructivist theories of language, personality and literature; Spenser.\', "Dr Samantha Matthews, (Senior Lecturer), 19th-century book history and manuscript culture; children\' s literature; London in literature; Romantic and Victorian literature and culture; Victorian afterlives.", \'Dr Ulrika Maude, (Reader), Medical humanities; Modernism and postwar writing; modernist literature; perception and philosophies of embodiment; post-war English and American fiction; Samuel Beckett.\', \'Dr Kate McClune, (Lecturer), 15th- and 16th-century Scottish and English manuscript culture; Arthurian literature; older Scots literature.\', \'Dr John McTague, (Lecturer), Alexander Pope; history of the book and analytical bibliography; hoaxes and conspiracies; partisan historiography; propaganda and blame; Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, particularly Jonathan Swift; the representation of British politics 1660-1740.\', \'Professor Ralph Pite, (Professor), Contemporary poetry; Romantic literature, especially Coleridge, Keats and contemporary responses to Dante; Thomas Hardy; Victorian fiction; writing and the environment.\', \'Dr Rosalind Powell, (Lecturer), 18th-century and Romantic poetry and poetics; imitation, translation and translation theory; literature and science; physico-theology and religious poetry; psalmody and hymnody\', \'Dr Laurence Publicover, (Lecturer), Early modern drama (especially Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Middleton); literary and dramatic geography; the sea in literature and culture.\', \'Professor David Punter, (Professor), Contemporary fiction and poetry; critical theory, Romantic and Gothic literature; psychoanalysis.\', "Dr Tara Puri, (Lecturer), art and politics; late 19th and early 20th century Indian literature; periodicals and print culture; representations of empire; Victorian literature; women\' s writing and history", \'Professor Ad Putter, (Professor), Alliterative tradition; Arthurian romance; comparative medieval literature (French, Dutch, Latin, English); The Gawain-poet; the popular romance and the popular ballad.\', \'Dr Theo Savvas, (Lecturer), Contemporary multi-ethnic writing of America, particularly postmodernist fiction; the relationship between history and fiction.\', \'Dr Leah Tether, (Senior Lecturer), Arthurian literature (French and English); digital humanities; history of the book; medieval and digital reading cultures; medieval French literature 1200-1400; publishing studies.\', \'Dr Maria Vaccarella, (Lecturer), Contemporary literature; critical disability studies; graphic storytelling; literature and medicine; medical humanities; narrative medicine.\', \'Dr Sebastiaan Verweij, (Lecturer), Book history and bibliography; early modern; late medieval; Scottish literature.\', \'Dr William Wootten, (Lecturer), Bristol (modern & contemporary poetry); creative writing; history of Penguin publishing.; poetry.\', \'Dr Jane Wright, (Senior Lecturer), 19th-century literature, particularly Victorian poetry and literary criticism (and especially Tennyson, Clough, Arnold, Hopkins).\']