Research in the Department of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster University, UK

Introduction to Research in English Literature and Creative Writing

All members of staff are active in individual research work and are involved as well in the research centres and in collaborative research across a range of subjects. The Department was rated 5A in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise; in the 2008-09 Research Assessment Exercise, 90% of the submission for English Language and Literature was classified within the ‘international’ categories, with 60% being judged either ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’.

English Literature

eagleton Our publications in English Literature range from the Renaissance to contemporary writing – over 250 books and articles published since 2000 are listed here.

Creative Writing

Our publications in Creative Writing are in a wide range of genres - including poetry, novels, short stories, drama, children's fiction, screen plays and creative non-fiction.

Staff Research Interests

romanticiam This section lists staff members’ main research interests. Our staff pages give full profiles of the thirty-seven academics and creative writers who teach in the Department.

Research Clusters

movingworlds Read more about our distinctive research areas, including literature and location; transcultural writing; literature and religion; literature and gender; film and popular culture.

Recent Research Awards. In 2009-11, members of the Department have been awarded several major research grants: Lindsey Moore and Arthur Bradley have succeeded in their bid to the AHRC Religion and Society competition with their project 'Islamism in Arab fiction and film'; Robert Appelbaum is the recipient of an AHRC Research Leave Fellowship for 2009-10 to complete work on 'Restaurants for the Rest of Us'; in 2009 Hilary Hinds was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on 'George Fox and the Rhetoric of Early Quakerism'; Hilary has also (2010-11) been awarded a twelve-month Research Leave award by the Wellcome Trust to undertake a project entitled 'Twin Beds: From Hygienic Homes to Healthy Marriages, 1870-1970'; and Liz Oakley-Brown has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on 'Thomas Churchyard: Travel, Translation and Tudor Identity'. Major prizes awarded in 2009 include Paul Farley's Royal Society of Literature's Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction and his E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.