PhD/ MPhil/ MRes in English in Glasgow United Kingdom | University of Strathclyde

You can choose to specialize in any of our five research disciplines: Gender Studies, Literary Linguistics, Literature, Culture & Place, Creative Writing, or Renaissance Studies. Our English language and literature postgraduate students receive guidance from globally recognized scholars whose expertise spans from the Renaissance era to contemporary times. Our key research specialties include: Alphabetically organized: 20th & 21st century literature & culture, Alasdair Gray Studies, American literature & culture, animal studies, critical disability studies, critical medical humanities, experimental literature, gender & sexuality, heritage, life writing, linguistic & cognitive literary studies, monster theory, periodical and newspaper culture, poetry & poetics, postcolonial literature & theory, queer theory, Renaissance studies, Scottish studies, and Victorian, Edwardian & Neo-Victorian literature. Recent and ongoing PhD projects in English Studies have explored topics such as animal depictions in illustrated crime news, the influence of Neanderthal discoveries on 19th-century literary culture, the notion of will in Renaissance texts, Alexander Trocchi, Nathaniel Hawthorne, cognitive approaches to spatial patterns in fiction, and metaphor comprehension among English language learners.