English and American Studies has a strong tradition in research at Manchester. Specific areas of research excellence include American studies, postcolonial studies, lesbian and gay theory and writing, Old and Middle English, Renaissance literature, Modernism, Romanticism, the long eighteenth century, Victorian literature and culture, twentieth-century literature Irish and Scottish studies, and critical and cultural theory.
Research
Most our of research is listed on the web pages of individual members of staff or PhD students.
Other links of research interest include:
- American Studies Research Group
- Centre for the Study of Sexuality & Culture
- Centre for New Writing
- Cultural Theory Institute
- English Society
- English and American Studies Research Seminars
- Irish and Scottish Studies Research Group
- Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (MANCASS)
- Manchester Centre for Music in Culture
- ManuScript, the postgraduate journal
- Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Research Cluster
- Modernism Research Group
- Postcolonial Research Group
- The Byron Centre
EAS Research Seminars
Programme details are here. Research Seminars are 4-5 every Wednesday in the Poetry Centre.
The 2012 Stachniewski Memorial Lecture will be given at 5pm on the 8 February by Professor Brian Cummings (Sussex). For details please contact Dr Jerome de Groot, Jerome.degroot@manchester.ac.uk.