PhD English Literature

University of Reading

We offer supervision on a very wide range of research topics, often working in co-operation with staff from other disciplines. Within our Department some particularly strong research fields may be singled out:American LiteratureBeckett StudiesBook HistoryChildren's LiteratureCreative WritingEarly Modern StudiesMedieval LiteratureEighteenth-Century StudiesNineteenth-Century LiteratureTwentieth-Century Literature. This PhD programme can accommodate any interests which relate to those of the researchers in the Department of English Literature. In all of the areas of research, a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches are welcomed, including a focus on archival work in relation to the University's outstanding archives, which include the Samuel Beckett archives, the Children's Literature Special Collection and many publishers' archives.