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Medieval and early modern
We specialise in drama, performance, and writing in medieval and early modern England, with key interests in place/space and digital mapping, performances of the law, ecocriticism and environmental awareness, early media/news, Tudor Gothic, language and translation.
Medieval English Theatre
Journal: Medieval English Theatre
Medieval English Theatre is an international refereed journal, established in 1979. Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes articles on theatre and pageantry from across the British Isles up to the opening of the London playhouses and the suppression of the civic religious plays.
Translating Shakespeare
Book: Translating Shakespeare: Access and Mediation
By Duncan Lees, Liz Oakley-Brown
This edited collection explores the mediation between languages, cultures and people that occurs when Shakespeare is translated - in multiple senses - and who is included and excluded in the process. It features contributions from emerging and established critical and creative writers, who offer analysis of a wide range of global cases, spanning Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, as well as Europe and North America.
Early Modern Drama and the Theatre of War
Book: Early modern drama and the theatre of war: Militarism, conflict and disruption in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries
By Bronwen Price and Hilary Hinds
This volume explores the disruptive effects of militarism, war and social unrest in early modern drama.
The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language
Book: The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language: Plays and Characters
Dawn Archer (Author) , Alison Findlay (Author) , Sean Murphy (Author) , Jonathan Culpeper (Series Editor)
The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language is the first comprehensive account of Shakespeare's language to use computational methods derived from corpus linguistics – methods of choice for today's historical linguist.
Performing Libel in the Provinces
Book: Performing Libel in the Provinces: Community Conflict in Early Modern England
By Clare Egan
Performing Libel in the Provinces provides the first book-length study of the dramatic traditions and literary features of private libel occurring in the provinces of Jacobean England.
Researchers in Medieval and early modern
Dr Clare Egan
Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern LiteratureDigital Humanities, Literature, Space and Place, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance
Professor Liz Oakley-Brown
Professor in English LiteratureCentre for Sustainable Soils, FHASS Health Hub, Literature, Science and Medicine, Literature, Space and Place, Shakespeare Programme, Transcultural Writing, Practice and Research Network
Professor Alison Findlay
Emeritus ProfessorDigital Humanities, Literature and Religion, Literature, Space and Place, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance, Shakespeare Programme
Professor Hilary Hinds
Emeritus ProfessorCentre for Gender Studies, Literature and Religion, Literature, Science and Medicine, Literature, Space and Place
Long nineteenth century
We are specialists in Romantic and Victorian literature, producing groundbreaking research on the Lake District poets, place/space, digital literary mapping, gaming, manuscripts, Austen, Ruskin, revolution, Gothic, science and medicine, text/image relations and religion.
Mountaineering and British Romanticism
Book: Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836
By Simon Bainbridge
This book examines the relationship between Romantic-period writing and the activity that Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened ‘mountaineering’ in 1802.
The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein
Book: The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein
By Sharon Ruston
What is life? This was a question of particular concern for Mary Shelley and her contemporaries. But how did she, and her fellow Romantic writers, incorporate this debate into their work, and how much were they influenced by contemporary science, medicine and personal loss?
This book is the first to compile the many attempts in science and medicine to account for life and death in Mary Shelley's time.
Shelley's Visions of Death
Book: Shelley's Visions of Death
By Andrew Lacey
This book provides the first modern, in-depth analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s engagement with the phenomenon of death. It argues that, for Shelley, this most nebulous of realities represents, first and foremost, possibility: Shelley’s poetic writings on death are both numerous and varied, presenting his reader, with differing degrees of confidence over the course of his brief but brilliant career, with several key visions of what death might be or actually is.
Anticipatory Materialisms
Book: Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790–1930
Editors: Jo Carruthers, Nour Dakkak, Rebecca Spence
Anticipatory Materialisms explores nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature thatanticipates and pre-empts the recent philosophical ‘turn’ to materiality and affect.
Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage
Book: Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century: Refashioning the Nation’s Sacred Imaginary
By Keith Hanley
Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical practice of pilgrimage became internalised figuratively and psychologically so as to represent Christian discourse in nineteenth-century English literature.
Researchers in Long nineteenth century
Professor Simon Bainbridge
Professor in English and Creative WritingLiterature, Space and Place, Wordsworth Centre
Professor Sally Bushell
ProfessorDigital Humanities, Institute for Social Futures Fellow, ISF Fellows 2019/20, Literature, Space and Place, Wordsworth Centre
Professor Mark Knight
Deputy Head of School - School of Arts, Professor in Literature, Religion and Victorian StudiesLiterature and Religion
Dr Jo Carruthers
Senior LecturerCreative-Critical Writing, Literature and Religion, Literature, Space and Place, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance, Morecambe Bay Curriculum
Professor Andrew Tate
Professor in Literature, Religion and AestheticsGothic and Science Fiction, Institute for Social Futures Fellow, Literature and Religion, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance
Professor Catherine Spooner
Director of Postgraduate Research and Research Training, Professor of Literature and CultureCreative Writing, Gothic and Science Fiction, Literature, Space and Place, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance
Dr Philip Dickinson
Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies and World LiteratureLiterature, Space and Place
Professor Kamilla Elliott
Emeritus ProfessorCreative-Critical Writing, Gothic and Science Fiction, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance
Modern and contemporary
We have expertise across twentieth and twenty-first-century literatures, theory and film. Our research is motivated by urgent questions about the fate of literature and culture in our planetary age and spans transdisciplinary and emergent forms of knowledge, including the environmental and medical humanities, post and anti-colonial studies, continental philosophy and transcultural and intermedial research. We have a track record of innovation in creative-critical or post-critical writing and in developing interfaces between literature and other forms of creative and cultural production.
Staging Sovereignty
Book: Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy
By Arthur Bradley
This book explores the relationship between theater and sovereignty in modern political theory, philosophy, and performance. Arthur Bradley considers the theatricality of power—its forms, dramas, and iconography—and examines sovereignty’s modes of appearance: thrones, insignia, regalia, ritual, ceremony, spectacle, marvels, fictions, and phantasmagoria.
Border Masculinities
Book: Border Masculinities: Literary and Visual Representations
By Amit Thakkar, Brian Baker, Chris Harris
This volume collates and examines literary and screened representations of what the editors term ‘border masculinities’. It seeks to understand masculine subjectivities, through fiction and screen, within a complex global arena of relationships and fluid movements across multiple boundaries within that arena.
The Cambridge History of the Gothic
Book: The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 3: Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
By Catherine Spooner, Lancaster University, Dale Townshend, Manchester Metropolitan University
The third volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic is the first book to provide an in-depth history of Gothic literature, film, television and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (c. 1896-present).
Authors and Art Movements of the Twentieth Century
Book: Authors and Art Movements of the Twentieth Century: Painterly Poetics
By Declan Lloyd
This book explores the great influence of twentieth-century artists and art movements on many major writers of the twentieth century.
Trauma in 21st-Century Time Travel Cinema
Book: Trauma in 21st-Century Time Travel Cinema: Being (a)Part
By Kwasu D. Tembo
Kwasu D. Tembo unites approaches from disciplines as wide-ranging as physics, mathematics, cinema, philosophy, and media theory to pose critical questions concerning time, change, and (un)becoming in contemporary time-travel cinema.
Global Arab Fiction
Book: Global Arab Fiction
By Nadia Atia, Lindsey Moore
Global Arab Fiction explores twenty-first-century fiction set in north and east Africa, the Gulf, the Arab east, and diaspora, showing diversity and connections across Arab world contexts.
Transplantation Gothic
Book: Transplantation Gothic: Tissue transfer in literature, film, and medicine
By Sara Wasson
Transplantation Gothic is a shadow cultural history of transplantation, as mediated through medical writing, science fiction, life writing and visual arts in a Gothic mode, from the nineteenth-century to the present.
Researchers in Modern and contemporary
Dr Lindsey Moore
ReaderCentre for Gender Studies, Literature and Religion, Richardson Institute for Peace Studies, Transcultural Writing, Practice and Research Network
Dr Jo Carruthers
Senior LecturerCreative-Critical Writing, Literature and Religion, Literature, Space and Place, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance, Morecambe Bay Curriculum
Professor Andrew Tate
Professor in Literature, Religion and AestheticsGothic and Science Fiction, Institute for Social Futures Fellow, Literature and Religion, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance
Professor Catherine Spooner
Director of Postgraduate Research and Research Training, Professor of Literature and CultureCreative Writing, Gothic and Science Fiction, Literature, Space and Place, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance
Dr Philip Dickinson
Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies and World LiteratureLiterature, Space and Place
Professor John Schad
Emeritus ProfessorCreative-Critical Writing, Literature and Religion, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance
Professor Kamilla Elliott
Emeritus ProfessorCreative-Critical Writing, Gothic and Science Fiction, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance
Professor Lynne Pearce
Emeritus ProfessorCeMoRe - Centre for Mobilities Research, Centre for Gender Studies, Literature, Space and Place