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English

The Faculty of English has over 100 active research staff covering literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day and is the largest English Department in the United Kingdom.  Somerville's Fellows are prolific researchers and publish widely. They support and encourage research from graduates and undergraduates in all areas and take a multidisciplinary approach to the subject.

Below are details of some of the areas of research which our Fellow and Tutors are currently engaged in. There are links to personal and faculty web pages. For further information and links to their college profiles please visit the English subject page.

 

18th-century and romantic literature; Scottish and Irish literature; Austen

Professor Fiona Stafford, Fellow and Professor in English Language and Literature

 

English literature of the seventeenth century

Dr Phillip West, Fellow and Tutor in English 

 

Medieval English Psalters; Biblical translation and interpretation; development of the vernacular; devotional writing

Dr Annie Sutherland, Fellow and Tutor in Old and Middle English

 

Elizabethan literature, history and biography, especially with reference to original texts and sources in manuscript and early editions

Professor Katherine Duncan-Jones, Senior Research Fellow 

 

Late-nineteenth- to twenty-first-century literature

Dr David Sergeant - Faculty Profile