English
Overview
The English team enjoys an international reputation for its high quality research (85% rated as world leading or of international excellence in the Research Assessment Exercise 2008). Its teaching was assessed as excellent in the most recent Centre for Academic Standards and Quality Audit in 2004. We are committed to research-led teaching and are proud of the contributions we make to our individual fields. The quality of the research produced by this department, and the chance to engage with cutting-edge ideas in literary studies, are major reasons for you to choose to come here.
With a teaching and research team comprising 18 permanent academic staff and six research associates, we provide a base of expertise and experience that covers a wide range of specialisms. Our culture of research excellence is underpinned by the range of the modules offered to students and the diversity of the critical/theoretical approaches employed. We have a breadth of expertise across literary periods — from medieval and the Renaissance to the twenty-first century — and pursue a broad spectrum of specialisms, from American literature to postcolonial texts. Our courses also provide opportunities to study film and creative writing.
We are experienced and committed teachers who, as well as providing traditional lectures and seminar discussion groups, offer a variety of teaching strategies including workshops, group projects, personal tutorials and opportunities for individual research. If you choose to study English at Nottingham Trent University you will be choosing to join, and contribute to, a community that is passionate about literature, values hard work and rigorous intellectual engagement with the subject, and is interested in exploring issues vital to contemporary literary studies and to society.
Benefits of studying with us:
- Our modules are delivered by a team of staff (whose research was graded as world leading or of international quality in the RAE 2008) who, as eminent researchers, critics and writers, are dedicated to bringing their expertise to the design and teaching delivery of the curriculum.
- You'll have the opportunity to learn about the most significant directions in contemporary literary studies. Staff expertise includes subject areas such as gender and writing; the Renaissance; critical theory; North American literature; creative writing; travel writing; technology and culture; and postcolonial literatures.
- Students have the opportunity to study at an American, Australian or European university for half a year as part of their degree programme.
Courses
View our range of Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses
Research
Specialist original research in English is conducted to internationally recognised standards by the members of our team. Research outputs include: monographs; edited books; chapters; articles in leading journals; novels; screenplays; and poetry collections.
In addition to hosting a number of colloquia throughout the year, the English team runs weekly research seminars with external and internal speakers involving both staff and postgraduate students. English is also the home of a number of journals including the innovative eJournal, Writing Technologies.
To read more about our specific research projects, visit the English specialist centres page.
Staff profiles
For staff members please see the academic staff section.
Contact
Professor Nahem Yousaf
Head of English, Communication and Media
Arts and Humanities
Email
Recent Publications
Title: States of Suspense: The Nuclear Age, Postmodernism and United States Fiction and Prose
Author: Cordle, Dan
Publisher: Manchester University Press (Manchester)
Date: 2008
ISBN: 9780719077128
Title: Voyage Drama and Gender Politics, 1589-1642
Author: Jowitt, Claire
Publisher: Manchester University Press (Manchester)
Date: 2003
ISBN:0719054516
Title: The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination
Author: Thompson, Carl
Publisher: Clarendon Press (Oxford)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 10: 0199259984
Title: Quidnunc
Author: Woods, Gregory
Publisher: Carcanet (Manchester)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 1857549465
Title: A Walk in the Night and Other Stories
Author: Yousaf, Nahem (ed), La Guma, Alex
Publisher: Nottingham: Trent Editions
Date: 2006
ISBN: 1 84233 122 1 and 9780719077128
