This research cluster represents the full area of the study of English Literature and Language, from medieval, early modern, 18th Century, Romantic and Victorian to Modern and Contemporary literature encompassing research in the related areas of Theatre, Film, cultural studies, theory and creative writing.
Chair: Jane Hodson, School of English, University of Sheffield
| Member | University | Research Interests |
| Jim Mussell | Leeds | Nineteenth-century literature; history of the book; newspapers; periodicals; digital humanities; science and literature |
| Clare Barker | Leeds | Postcolonial literature; indigenous literature; disability studies; medical humanities |
| Martin Butler | Leeds | Politics of the English stage; the court masque; Ben Jonson; cinematic adaptation of Renaissance texts |
| Katherine Ebury | Sheffield | Modernism, literature and science, law and literature, and Irish Studies |
| Bob McKay | Sheffield | Representation of animals and the ethics of animal–human relations in literature, film and culture since 1945 |
| Emma Rhatigan | Sheffield | Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, in particular, the genre of the early modern sermon |
| Sophie Coulombeau | York | Relationship between naming and identity in late eighteenth-century literature and culture |
| John Bowen | York | Nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, in particular the works of Charles Dickens and other major Victorian novelists |
| Bryan Radley | York | Irish Studies; comedy; modern and contemporary fiction |