Research Supervision Areas

Drama

Particular areas in which staff from the Drama Department are able to provide research supervision include:

• performance history in the 17th and 18th centuries
• gender and theatre
• Elizabethan and Jacobean stage practices in post war European theatre
• Gothic theatres
• Restoration theatre
• Shakespeare and Renaissance theatre

English

Particular areas in which staff from the English Department are able to provide research supervision include:

• John Milton 1667
• Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell and Milton
• domestic travel literature
• seventeenth-century political writing
• Civil War radicalism; heresy and heterodoxy
• the literature of landscape and national identity
• archaeology and antiquarianism
• education, humanism and the universities
• literary communities
• manuscript and print cultures
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• the early novel
• women's literary history
• literary history of early modern science and the natural world
• satire, invective and insult
• witchcraft and magic in literature in early modern England and early America

History

Particular areas in which staff from the History Department are able to provide research supervision include:

• cultures of consumption in early modern England
• gender relations and masculinity
• social identity and the social order
• urban history, especially of south-west England
• agricultural history and agrarian capitalism
• religious and ecclesiastical history of Britain between the sixteenth and eighteenth
• centuries (the Reformation, the Church of England, Roman Catholicism, Protestant dissent)
• persecution and toleration
• early modern landscape and environment
• the history of early modern science
• antiquarianism and perceptions of the past
• witchcraft and the supernatural
• print, literacy and transformations in communication; the history of the book
• the history of medicine, sexuality and health
• pornography and the body

Modern Languages

Particular areas in which staff from the Modern Languages Department are able to provide research supervision include:

• sexuality and notions of obscenity
• Voltaire and his circle
• French Renaissance literature and theatre
• medicine and gender in France c. 1500-1650
• translation and humanism in early modern Europe
• eighteenth-century French drama, literature and art
• German court culture
• Friedrich Schiller
• eighteenth-century German women writers and gender debates
• eighteenth-century German theatre