Gender

Our Research

Staff in English are engaged in studies of women’s writing and literary histories, as well as historical debates regarding masculinity.

Current Topics 

The team is working on a number of projects including:

Women’s religious writing of the nineteenth century and literary explorations of religion in relation to gender, including maternal ideas of God in the era 1850-1920 and transatlantic traditions of feminist spirituality.  

Women writers and Medievalism, particularly women’s reinterpretations and revisions of the Arthurian myth from the Victorian period to the present.

Women’s life writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the role of scholarly editing in shaping women’s literary histories.

University drama and masculinity in the early modern period, examining university plays and their reception and addressing university authority, royal patronage, and the literary traditions of classical friendship and platonic love.