English at Queen Mary is a vibrant department redefining the boundaries of English studies. Inspired by the university’s history of widening access to education, we connect the local and global and champion equality, diversity, and inclusion in all we do.
Our interdisciplinary research offers vital perspectives on literature from the medieval through the contemporary, from Renaissance manuscripts to digital writing and graphic novels. ‘English studies’ as we practice it is a global field which locates Anglophone writing practices within histories of empire, diaspora, and decolonisation. Our emphasis on marginalised identities and radical writing is driven by a commitment to our students, to our locality, and to the future of a discipline whose historically nuanced strategies of interpretation are urgently needed in an increasingly fragmented world.
We have particular strengths in textual scholarship and editing, digital humanities, race, world writing, migration, and the legacies of empire, gender and sexual cultures, literary cartographies, literature and religion, literature and science, material cultures, and disability studies.
