English

English at Brunel University London has gone from strength to strength over the last decade to the point where it is now regularly ranked in the top ten English departments in the UK in the Guardian league tables. 

At Brunel University London Brunel University London , we have a thriving graduate community, and welcome PhD applications in any of our particular areas of strength, which include modern and contemporary literature, Shakespeare, Renaissance studies, Victorian literature and culture, and world literature in English English .

Features 

• We have some of Britain’s most celebrated, talented, original, and experienced writers actively publishing in the industry today, including Banjamin Zephaniah, Will Self, Bernardine Evaristo, Christopher Fox, Geoff King, Fiona Templeton and many more, having published over 80 powerfully diverse books between them and written for all the national newspapers.

Curriculum: 

• The Reformation in print

• Fantasy writing of the 19th and 20th centuries

• Mass-Observation and Everyday Life

• Working-class and proletarian writing

• Modernist and postwar women’s writing

• Transnational modernist studies