Expert tutors who will take your learning further in the field of literature

Our teaching team are world-renowned experts and they help you get closer to the latest published research in English, cultural studies and beyond. 

All of our staff are active researchers who can bring their unique and innovative approaches to help you bring something fresh to your research dissertation. 

You will be assigned a supervisor based on your interests to guide you through your main written project and you will have the opportunity to discuss your work with other tutors in the areas you wish to study. 

7 recent examples of published work from our academic staff include: 

• Bad English: Literature, multilingualism, and the politics of language in contemporary Britain by Professor Rachael Gilmour. 
• The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing, co-edited by our Professor Susheila Nasta. 
• The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction: Who’s Laughing Now? by Dr Huw Marsh. 
• Essayism by Professor Brian Dillon. 
• The Italian Idea: Anglo-Italian Radical Literary Culture, 1815–1823 by Dr Will Bowers. 
• ‘Queering the Arab Spring: Belonging in Saleem Haddad’s Guapa’ in ‘Queer Worlds/ Global Queer’ by Dr Nadia Atia a special issue of Wasafiri. 
• Romanticism and the Uses of Genre (Oxford University Press, 2009, pbk 2013) by Professor David Duff. Winner of the ESSE Book Award. 
• Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture (Oxford University Press, 2017) by Professor Catherine Maxwell.
  

For a detailed breakdown of our teaching team please see our research groups.