English Literature

Overview

We are proud of our expertise in medieval and early-modern literature, in Romantic and Victorian literature, in modernism, and in contemporary writing in English. The department is notable for its breadth of research in English poetry across the periods, and our range of specialist interests includes literary theory, the history of book, literature and science, literature and medicine, literature and the environment, digital humanities, women’s writing and gender studies, queer writing, postcolonial literature, Black British writing, 20th-century American literature, the Gothic tradition, and Welsh and Anglo-Welsh writing.

Careers

A large number of graduates from the English Literature  programme offered by the University of Bristol  develop careers in higher education or work on high-level research projects in the field of English literature; some graduates take up careers in freelance writing and editing.