Research

Our research is interdisciplinary, comparative, and dynamic. We have particular strengths in American studies, eighteenth and nineteenth-century studies, environmentalism and ecocriticism, gender studies, the literary and cultural history of the medieval and early modern period, performance studies, poetry and poetics, and World Literature. Our major research centres include Poetry at Warwick, and the Warwick Research Collective (WReC). We were also involved in establishing the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance in 1993, which brings together staff from five departments engaged in the study of Renaissance Europe, and which enjoys formal academic links with several institutions including the Warburg Institute, the Sorbonne, and with the University of Venice. We have close links with the Centre for Research into Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts, the Early Modern and Eighteenth-Century Centre, and the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies.

We hold an ECLS Research Seminar during term in which members of the Department (both staff and post- doctoral fellows) as well as visitors from outside the university present their research and to which all graduate students are invited. International links are also fostered through conferences for which Warwick’s facilities are exceptional and for which internal funding is often available. Conferences and colloquia are an integral part of our research activity and of our graduate training; and it is here that we can often help establish an international platform for our graduate students by introducing them to the appropriate international networks of scholars.