English Literature – (Ph.D.)

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You will be allocated a supervisory team which will consist of a first and second supervisor, with additional members added if necessary.

We host a well-attended postgraduate research seminar which meets regularly to give you an opportunity to present papers in a supportive setting. This group provides an informal context for postgraduate training and support, but there is also a more formal training programme, which aims to offer subject-specific support and training for all postgraduates as an addition to the generic training offered by our University. Our Department allocates a substantial sum each year towards the support of postgraduates in the form of bursaries and travel or conference expenses.

Facilities
Our students meet regularly in our Department and Faculty Research seminars. Some attend Cambridge University Graduate seminars in their particular period or field.

We have dedicated desk space and a computer available for all full-time research students.

We are a friendly, energetic Department with all the superb facilities of Cambridge, including the world-famous Cambridge University Library on our doorstep, plus a host of multi-media, video and radio production facilities on our campus.

Faculty

Staff Research

Dr Jeannette Baxter, BA, MA, PhD: Twentieth-Century literature; Contemporary fiction; Post-1945 novel; Surrealism and the avant-garde; Holocaust literature.

Professor Sarah Brown, BA, MA, PhD: Adaptations of classical texts and myths; Victorian novels; Renaissance literature, especially Shakespeare; Children's literature; Science fiction.

Dr John Gardner, BA, MA, PhD: Poetry and politics in the Eighteenth Century or Romantic period; The novel in the Eighteenth Century or Romantic period; The relationship between text and illustration.

Professor Eugene Giddens, BA, MA, PhD:
Shakespeare and Renaissance drama; Early print culture; Children's literature.

Professor Mary Joannou, BA, MA, PhD (Professor): The women's suffrage movement; Victorian and twentieth-century women writers; Literature 1930-60; Black British writing; Working-Class writing; Autobiography.

Dr Katy Price, BA, MA, PhD: Twentieth-century poetry; Literature and science; Popular culture; Modernism; Science fiction; William Empson.

Dr Valerie Purton, BA, MA, PhD: Victorian writing, especially Tennyson and Dickens; Post-colonial writing; Novels of Iris Murdoch; Medievalism; Critical theory.

Dr Samantha Rayner, BA, MA PhD: Medieval literature; Arthurian literature; Rochester; Gerard Manley Hopkins; David Jones.

Professor Rowland Wymer, MA, BLitt: Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama; Science fiction; Derek Jarman; Critical theory.

Dr Tory Young, BA, MA, PhD: Modernism; Contemporary fiction especially by British women since 2000; Travel writing or Journeys in fiction; Narratology; Postfeminism.