PhD English in Loughborough United Kingdom | Loughborough University

Housed in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, our English faculty members are dedicated researchers who operate both within and beyond conventional humanities disciplines. Spanning historical specializations to pioneering editorial initiatives, we pursue creative scholarship that merges classical techniques with innovative methods, uncovering new insights and broadening literary exploration to address contemporary issues.

Our department takes pride in the variety and scope of our research capabilities. Loughborough's English program maintains strong recognition in era-specific literary analysis while growing its interdisciplinary focus in digital studies, editorial techniques, multimodal approaches, modern feminist thought, utopian concepts, cinema studies, and philosophical inquiry.

Scholarly work encompasses all historical periods from early modern through 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th-21st century literature and cultural studies. We possess global recognition for our 17th-century literary research, exemplified by the £1 million AHRC-supported Editing Aphra Behn in the Digital Age initiative. This undertaking perfectly illustrates how we redefine conventional literary scholarship at Loughborough, fusing time-honored practices with advanced techniques to make literature vibrant and meaningful for today's world.