Research
English and Creative Writing at Brunel have gone from strength to strength. We have a thriving graduate community, and welcome PhD applications in any of our particular areas of strength, which include contemporary literature, Shakespeare, Renaissance studies, Victorian literature and culture, creative writing, and world literature in English. The School of Arts has recently made significant new staff appointments to guarantee depth and diversity in its research programmes and its teaching. These new appointments also confirm our commitment to interdisciplinary approaches to the study of literature and culture.
Research in the areas of contemporary literary criticism and creative writing is clustered within the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing (BCCW). The BCCW organises regular programmes of research seminars and public readings by authors (Writers Talking); and runs the following popular MA programmes: MA in Contemporary Literature and Culture and MA in Creative Writing: The Novel.
Please download the Report on English Research Activities 2007-2008.
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Non-traditional literature
Research in English is organised around our commitment to the study of non-traditional and marginalised literatures in their intellectual and cultural contexts. Brunel has one of the most significant groupings of specialists in contemporary literatures in the country. It is also a national centre for the study of postcolonial literature.
Benefits for students
This research culture benefits undergraduate as well as postgraduate students. At Brunel, all of your lecturers are actively engaged in research or creative practice. This means that you will be introduced to cutting-edge issues and practice in your modules, by experts who participate in the development of the field. At level 3, the Special Author and Special Topic modules involve students in advanced and in-depth study of subjects in which lecturers share a particular research interest.
A full description of staff research interests, and the kinds of projects which each staff member can supervise, is now available. Some past research projects undertaken by faculty at Brunel include:
- Early modern death; the interaction between poetry, material culture and ritual in the seventeenth century
- Early modern spectacle: Elizabethan progresses, popular culture and reception
- Old age in early modern literature and culture
- War, heroic masculinity, and the body in the early modern period
- Catholic sensationalism in Victorian literature: religious prejudice, secular anxieties, and narratives of cultural subversion
- Fantasy writing of the 19th and 20th centuries
- Mass-Observation and Everyday Life
- The Origins of Intermodernism
- Modernist and postwar women's writing
- Popular fictions, popular culture and consumption
- The politics of cultural translation, literary production and consumption in the postcolonial field
- South Asian Anglophone writing, women's writing and literatures of the black and Asian diasporas in Britain
- Translation studies and the world literature context
- The elegiac mode in postmodern poetry
- The New York School and the Avant-Garde
- Postcolonial literature and theory
- Postwar Science Fiction
- 9/11 and the Traumatological
