We welcome enquiries and proposals for PhD study in all periods of literature in English, from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. The Department's strengths include:
- Medieval Literature
- Restoration and C18th Literature
- Romantic Literature
- Victorian Fiction
- C19th and C20th American Literature
- Modernism
- Postmodernism
- Contemporary Poetry and Fiction
- Women's Writing
- Children's Literature
- Welsh Writing in English
- Irish Writing
- Literary Geography
- Gothic Literature and Ghost Stories
- Postcolonial Literature (especially African Literature)
- Ethnic American Literatures
- Literary Theory (especially Ecocriticism, Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Marxism, New Historicism, Psychoanalysis, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism).
