To give you an idea of the range of research work undertaken by our research students here are some past and present projects:

• Animated Statuary in Early Modern Drama
• Pedants in Renaissance Drama
• Masculinity in Crisis, 1880-1914
• Poetry and Politics of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Post-Stonewall Gay Writing
• Contemporary British Gothic Fiction
• British Responses to Irish Writing
• D. H. Lawrence
• Shelley's Drama
• Toni Morrison and Music
• Modernism and the Occult
• Scottishness in Cinema
• Influence of Paracelsus on English Renaissance Literature
• Punctuation in Early Modern play texts
• Fantastical creatures in children's literature
• Participation of Muslim women in internet culture
• 'Straight Edge' subcultures
• Representation of Women in the Cinema of World War II

We have specialist staff expertise in the following areas:

English Literature and Language and Creative Writing

• Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
• Modernism
• Science and Literature
• Science Fiction
• Myth and Metamorphosis
• Children's Literature
• Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction
• Romantic Literature
• Victorian literature
• Surrealism
• Creative writing
• Graphic novels
• Contemporary Fiction
• Adaptations and Appropriations
• Second language acquisition and multilingualism

Communication, Film and Media

• Latin American Cinema
• National and Transnational Cinemas
• Popular Music
• Irishness and Popular Culture
• Digital Culture, New Media, and the Internet
• Cyberculture/Cybersociety
• Media and the Public Sphere
• Gender and Sexuality in Popular Film
• Documentary Film Theory
• Representations of Violence and Crime
• Feminist Film Theory
• American Independent Cinema
• The Body and Representation
• 'Trash' Cultures
• Italian Horror Films
• Philosophy and Cultural Theory
• Avant Garde Cinema and Experimental Film - theory and practice

Languages and Intercultural Communication

We had very successful completions in topics related to Contemporary European Film and National Discourse, and current PhD students are researching in the following areas:

• Postcolonial Caribbean Literature (Francophile aspect)
• Images of the US in UK & Hungary media discourse
• Critical discourse analysis of American fantasy films
• Adjustment of First Generation Middle Eastern Immigrants in England and France
• Orientalism in the Spanish Conquest
• Stalinist perspectives on the Polish production novel

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