English provides a nurturing environment for both individual and collaborative research: its permanent academic staff, together with a number of teaching and research fellows, cover a wide range of interests and periods. Our openness to new critical theories and emerging areas of the discipline encourages a multiplicity of approaches. Main research interests include: Old and Middle English, Romantic/Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Fiction, Modernism, 20th- and 21st-Century Literature, Culture and Film, Comics and Graphic Novels, Postcolonial, American Writing and Scottish Writing. Research postgraduates are advised and trained, not only on the development of their ideas but also on matters of publication and career planning.