English PhD

**Research centres and groups:**<br/><br/><br/>- **Centre for Victorian Studies (CVS)** The CVS covers all areas of Victorian Britain and the Empire: culture (high Victorian and fin de siecle literature, gender, and sexuality); science (biology and economics); technology (print, optical and sound media). CVS is an institutional member of the University of California Dickens Project and annually sends one staff member and one advanced research student to California, where they share a week’s academic activities with international Victorianists. CVS is also active in regular collaborations with the Nineteenth-Century Studies Centre at Birkbeck, the Victorian and late 19th and early 20th-century Divisions of the Modern Language Association of America, the North American Victorian Studies Association, the Australasian Victorian Studies Association, and the British Association for Victorian Studies. We have staff on the editorial boards of every significant Victorianist journal in Britain, North America and Australasia.<br/><br/><br/>- **18th Century Narrative Consortium** The group aims to provide a focus for research activities and publications centred on the cultural phenomenon of eighteenth-century narrative. The period that saw the dawn of the novel also witnessed the exponential development of a market for print culture and huge social change.<br/><br/><br/>- **Exeter Centre for Literatures of Identity, Place and Sustainability (ECLIPSE)** Based at the Penryn Campus in Cornwall, the aim of the ECLIPSE is to facilitate interdisciplinary research into literary representations and constructions of identity and place, dealing with literatures of myth, memory and history, and developing a ‘new’ eco-criticism for the 21st century.<br/><br/><br/>- **Centre for Literature and Archives** The centre holds many resources and manuscripts in the Special Collections archive, and actively encourages students to engage with this material.<br/><br/><br/>- **Centre for Intermedia and Creative Technology** English staff are also involved in the Colleges interdisciplinary centre which promotes advanced transdisciplinary research in performance and the arts through collaborations between artists, academics and scientists from a range of disciplines.<br/><br/><br/>- **20th Century, Creative Writing and Film Studies** The diverse work of this large group includes specialist research on African-American writers; the American South; autobiography and life-writing; American and British modernism; postcolonial literature; Irish poetry; Conrad; Joyce; Lawrence; war poetry; Plath and Hughes; writing the city; South West writing; US cinema; early cinema; digital cinema and animation; film genres; film style, film sound and film history; US TV series and serials.<br/><br/><br/>We have Creative Writing colleagues working in Poetry, Screenwriting, Fiction in all forms, Life Writing, Childrens/Young Adult Writing, and Creative Non-Fiction. <br/><br/>**Research groups**<br/>- 20th Century, Creative Writing and Film Studies<br/><br/><br/>- 19th Century<br/><br/><br/>- 18th Century<br/><br/><br/>- Medieval and Renaissance<br/><br/><br/>To learn more about modules, assessment methods, facilities and our staff research expertise please visit our course page.