Research

• Research Clusters
  • The Renaissance, English Language and Medieval Studies
  • Poetry, Irish Writing, Creative Writing and Modern Literary Studies
• Current Projects
• Research Forums
• School Research Seminars
• Conferences
• School Research Committee
• Current Research Students
• Completed Ph.Ds in the School of English (since 1990)

Exploring connections, developments, environments and opportunities across the entire field of modern and contemporary writing, this research cluster generates cutting-edge literary-historical, critical and cultural research and high-profile new writing in poetry, prose and screenwriting that engages the local and the international, the regional and the global, the parish and the planet.

The Poetry, Irish Writing, Creative Writing and Modern Literary Studies research cluster comprises nearly two-thirds of the fulltime staff in the School of English, inclusive of the Seamus Heaney Centre.  Twenty-one fulltime members of staff – including four professors, three readers, three senior lecturers and ten lecturers are involved – as well as four of the School’s current complement of postdoctoral research fellows.  The cluster produces major new creative writing and internationally prominent critical editions, monographs, translations, edited collections and peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as promotes a wide array of agenda-setting postgraduate conferences and publications.

The cluster has also had a wide array of research funding through various AHRC schemes, the British Academy, the IRCHSS and other major sources.  Two new Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Awards are also sponsored within the cluster – namely, the QUB-Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award in Creative Writing and the QUB-Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award in Anglophone Irish Writing, both commencing in January 2011.

The cluster’s Research Director is Professor Brian Caraher, who may be contacted directly via email at b.caraher@qub.ac.uk or directly via telephone at (44) (028) 9097 3316.