Research Expertise

The School undertakes research and offers research supervision in the following areas:

Literatures in English from the Anglo-Saxons to the present day;
Individual authors, especially but not only Blake, Byron, Coetzee, Dickens, Langland, Lawrence, McEwan, Pope, Pulter, Shakespeare, Southey, Swift, Wilde, Woolf
Drama of all periods, with a particular focus on drama as performance;
Modern English language, applied linguistics, literary linguistics, psycholinguistics;
Historical language study including place-names;
Old Norse and Viking Studies.

Research specialisms in the School by:

Language and Period
Old English and Anglo-Saxon	Dr Jayne Carroll, Dr Paul Cavill, Dr Christina Lee
Middle English	Dr Mike Jones, Joanna Martin, Dr Nicola Royan,
Old Norse and Viking Age	Professor Judith Jesch, Dr Christina Lee
Latin	Dr Mike Jones, Dr Nicola Royan
Scots	Dr Joanna Martin, Dr Nicola Royan
Early Modern/Renaissance and Caroline	Dr Sarah Grandage, Dr Mike Jones, Dr Peter Kirwan, Dr Joanna Martin, Associate Professor Mark Robson , Dr Nicola Royan, Professor Julie Sanders
Eighteenth Century	Dr Matthew Green, Professor Brean Hammond, Dr Peter Kirwan
Romantics	Dr Máire ní Fhlathúin, Dr Matthew Green, Professor Lynda Pratt
Nineteenth Century	Dr Máire ní Fhlathúin, Professor Josephine Guy, Dr Matthew Green, Dr David James, Associate Professor Michaela Mahlberg, Dr Jim Moran, Associate Professor Joanna Robinson
Twentieth Century	Dr Neal Alexander, Dr Sarah Davison, Dr Sarah Grandage, Dr Andrew Harrison, Professor Dominic Head, Dr David James, Dr Leena Kore-Schröder, Dr Jim Moran, Dr Gordon Ramsay, Professor Julie Sanders, Dr Violeta Sotirova, Professor Peter Stockwell
Contemporary	Dr Neal Alexander, Dr Matthew Green, Professor Dominic Head, Dr David James, Dr Peter Kirwan, Dr Jim Moran, Dr Gordon Ramsay, Professor Julie Sanders, Professor Peter Stockwell

Genre or Approach
Biography and Life-writing	Dr Neal Alexander, Dr Andrew Harrison, Dr Leena Kore-Schröder, Professor Lynda Pratt, Associate Professor Mark Robson
Drama and Performance	Professor Janette Dillon, Dr Sarah Grandage, Professor Brean Hammond, Dr Peter Kirwan, Dr Jim Moran, Dr Gordon Ramsay, Associate Professor Joanna Robinson, Associate Professor Mark Robson, Professor Julie Sanders
Fictional Prose and the Novel	Dr Neal Alexander, Dr Sarah Davison, Dr Andrew Harrison, Professor Josephine Guy, Dr Matthew Green, Professor Brean Hammond, Dr David James, Professor Judith Jesch, Dr Leena Kore-Schröder, Associate Professor Michaela Mahlberg, Associate Professor Mark Robson, Professor Julie Sanders, Dr Violeta Sotirova, Professor Peter Stockwell
Non-fictional and Historical Prose	Dr Jayne Carroll, Dr Matthew Green, Professor Josephine Guy, Professor Dominic Head, Professor Judith Jesch, Dr Christina Lee, Dr Joanna Martin, Dr Máire ní Fhlathúin, Associate Professor Mark Robson, Dr Nicola Royan
Poetry	Dr Neal Alexander, Dr Jayne Carroll, Dr Paul Cavill, Dr Sarah Davison, Dr Matthew Green, Professor Judith Jesch, Dr Mike Jones, Dr Joanna Martin, Dr Máire ní Fhlathúin, Professor Lynda Pratt, Associate Professor Mark Robson, Dr Nicola Royan, Professor Peter Stockwell
The Bible	Dr Paul Cavill, Professor Zoltán Dörnyei, Dr Matthew Green

Aesthetics	Professor Josephine Guy, Dr Matthew Green, Dr David James, Associate Professor Mark Robson, Professor Peter Stockwell
Critical Theory	Dr Neal Alexander, Dr Matthew Green, Associate Professor Mark Robson
Cultural Geography	Dr Neal Alexander, Professor Janette Dillon, Dr David James, Professor Judith Jesch, Associate Professor Joanna Robinson, Professor Julie Sanders
Cultural Materialism	Dr Neal Alexander , Dr Leena Kore-Schröder, Dr Christina Lee, Associate Professor Mark Robson
Ethical Criticism	Dr Matthew Green, Professor Dominic Head, Associate Professor Mark Robson
Gender Studies	Dr David James, Dr Christina Lee, Professor Julie Sanders, Associate Professor Louise Mullany
Historiography	Dr Jayne Carroll, Dr Paul Cavill, Professor Josephine Guy, Dr David James, Professor Judith Jesch, Dr Mike Jones, Dr Leena Kore-Schröder, Dr Christina Lee, Dr Máire ní Fhlathúin, Associate Professor Joanna Robinson, Associate Professor Mark Robson, Dr Nicola Royan, Professor Julie Sanders
Modernism and Postmodernism	Dr Neal Alexander, Dr Sarah Davison, Dr Andrew Harrison, Dr David James

Comparative and World Literature	Dr Neal Alexander, Dr Matthew Green, Dr Andrew Harrison, Dr David James, Dr Christina Lee, Associate Professor Mark Robson
Creative Writing and Playwriting	Dr Gordon Ramsay
Medievalism	Dr Mike Jones, Dr Christina Lee
Name-studies	Dr Jayne Carroll, Dr Paul Cavill
Runology	Professor Judith Jesch
Text Editing	Dr Jayne Carroll, Dr Paul Cavill, Professor Josephine Guy, Professor Brean Hammond, Professor Judith Jesch, Dr Peter Kirwan, Dr Máire ní Fhlathúin, Professor Lynda Pratt, Dr Nicola Royan, Professor Julie Sanders

Applied Linguistics	Professor Svenja Adolphs, Professor Zoltán Dörnyei, Dr Sarah Grandage, Dr Kevin Harvey, Associate Professor Michaela Mahlberg, Associate Professor Louise Mullany, Professor Norbert Schmitt
Business English and Health Communication	Professor Svenja Adolphs, Dr Kevin Harvey, Associate Professor Louise Mullany
Corpus Linguistics	Professor Svenja Adolphs, Dr Kevin Harvey, Associate Professor Michaela Mahlberg, Associate Professor Louise Mullany, Professor Norbert Schmitt
Language and Faith	Professor Zoltán Dörnyei
Psycholinguistics	Dr Kathy Conklin, Professor Zoltán Dörnyei , Professor Norbert Schmitt
Sociolinguistics	Professor Svenja Adolphs, Dr Kevin Harvey, Professor Peter Stockwell, Associate Professor Louise Mullany
Spoken Discourse and Discourse Analysis	Professor Svenja Adolphs, Dr Sarah Grandage, Dr Kevin Harvey, Associate Professor Michaela Mahlberg, Associate Professor Louise Mullany
Stylistics	Dr Sarah Grandage, Dr Kevin Harvey, Dr David James, Professor Judith Jesch, Professor Peter Stockwell, Dr Violeta Sotirova, Associate Professor Michaela Mahlberg, Associate Professor Louise Mullany

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