Research in English Literature and Creative Writing
Research in English Literature and Creative Writing at Kingston University covers the following areas:
- 19th and 20th century British and American fiction
- Modernism
- Critical Theory
- Gothic writing
- Travel writing
- Gender and writing
- Literary representations of the Balkans
- Narratives of slavery
- Women's writing from the eighteenth century to the present
- New Woman and fin de siecle fictions
- Shakespeare, including Shakespeare and Islam
- English women's religious poetry during the seventeenth century
- The life and work of Iris Murdoch
- Suburban writing and writing about the suburbs
- Postcolonial/Diasporic studies
- Life Writing*
- Victorian popular fiction
- Writing Fiction
- Writing Poetry
- Writing for Children
- Writing Biography
- Writing Memoir
- Writing Crime Fiction
- Writing for the Stage
*Life Writing covers a broad spectrum and includes autobiography (Rachel Cusk, Vesna Goldsworthy, Hanif Kureishi); biography (Paul Bailey, Jane Jordan); slave narratives (Brycchan Carey); Erica Longfellow's work on early modern women's manuscript autobiographical writing; research by Gail Cunningham, Nick Hubble and Vesna Goldsworthy into suburban life writing; the literary history of women's lives (Norma Clarke, Avril Horner, Meg Jensen).
