Postgraduate Research

The School of English is a research intensive department where postgraduate students are given the opportunity to work with academics who are internationally recognised in their respective fields. As a postgraduate student you will be part of an established and thriving research culture which encourages its students to develop both as academics and as expert researchers. Awarded a grade 5 for research of substantial international and national significance (RAE 2008) the school welcomes students from all over the world and with a wide variety of research interests.

Click here to learn more about our research centres.

Staff supervise research in most areas of English and associated study but specialise in the following areas:

• theory
• modernism and postmodernism
• the 19th century
• women's writing
• literature and visual arts
• the enlightenment
• Shakespeare and the renaissance
• early modern literature
• medieval studies
• American literature
• postcolonial literature and theory
• modern poetry

Click here to read about our current research students.

Please contact englishpg@kent.ac.uk if you have any questions.