NIfER

About NIfER

The Nottingham Institute for English Research aims to promote and advance research, particularly recovery research into radical, working-class, labouring class, experimental and interrogative writing and texts. Particular reference is made to English literary traditions, colonial and post-colonial literary and cultural traditions, creative writing and experimentation and the limits of canonicity.

In pursuit of this objective the Institute supports and promotes the work of a number of projects. NIfER actively coordinates and integrates the work of these research projects and publishing undertakings, thereby promoting their development. For example, Trent Editions has sub-series devoted to the publication of Early Modern English Manuscript writing, Colonial and Postcolonial writing and Labouring Class writing.

Further information on our projects and centres.

The NIfER archives

The NifER archives are of unique value for:

• researching or documenting key areas of writing during the late eighteenth, early nineteenth and late twentieth centuries
• possessing important holdings in writings by or about John Clare and Robert Bloomfield.

They house wide-ranging collections of letters, manuscripts and tapes deposited by or acquired from, amongst others:

• the poets Hilda Morley, Libby Houston and Gael Turnbull
• the novelist Stanley Middleton
• and the poet and novelist Philip Callow.

Also included are letters by many contemporary poets, including: Jim Burns; Barry Cole; Thom Gunn; Derek Mahon; Peter Porter; Craig Raine; Matt Simpson; Anne Stevenson; Hugo Williams; John Tranter; Gregory Woods; and Michael Wilding.

The NifER research team

For further information about the NIfER research team view the English team staff profiles.

Contact

Director: David Worrall
School of Arts and Humanities
Nottingham Trent University
Clifton Lane
Nottingham
NG11 8NS
Telephone: +44 (0)115 848 3060

NIfER publications

Title: British Women Writers, 1914-1945 - Professional Work and Friendship
Author: Clay, Catherine
Publisher: Ashgate (Aldershot)
Date: 2006
ISBN: 13-9780754650935

Title: Drama and Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century England - Indelible Characters
Author: Coleman, David
Publisher: Palgrave (London)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 13-9780230535831