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: Freya Sierhuis, Department of English and Related Literature, University of York
| Member | University | Research Interests |
| Fiona Becket | Leeds | Poetry; ecopoetry and ecocriticism; post-War and experimental poetry |
| Clare Barker | Leeds | Postcolonial literature; indigenous literature; disability studies; medical humanities |
| Jose Perez Diez | Leeds | Jacobean drama; John Marston; John Fletcher; William Shakespeare; Anglo-Spanish cultural relations in the Renaissance; theatre history and practice; performance studies |
| 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 |
| Chloe Wigston Smith | York | Literary history and material culture studies; eighteenth-century travel literature, costume books, theatrical portraiture, trade cards and it-narratives |
| Shazia Jagot | York | Late Medieval English Literature; Near and Middle Eastern Studies; Western literary culture and the Islamic world during the medieval period; postcolonialism and global literature |
| Bryan Radley | York | Irish Studies; comedy; modern and contemporary fiction |