Postgraduate Study

The Department

The Department of English and Drama is a thriving and supportive community with a proven record for publications of international excellence (in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise 90% of our research was classified as being of ‘international’ significance, and more than 15% of our outputs as ‘world-leading’).

In the 2010 National Student Survey, both English and Drama at Loughborough came second nationally, demonstrating that our students feel that they fully benefit from our research-led teaching.

Ranked 8th in the UK for English–based studies

The Sunday Times University League Tables 2011

The Department’s staff supervise research in post-medieval literature in English, American Literature and Film, Linguistics, and Theatre and Performance Studies. Six recent graduates have taken up university lectureships; several current postgraduates have been published in academic journals; and our research students have organised successful conferences.

Staff-organised symposia have been held on diverse topics, and visitors in the Departmental lecture series include Isobel Armstrong, Dame Gillian Beer, Valentine Cunningham, Jacques Derrida, Terry Eagleton, Germaine Greer, Sir Frank Kermode, Tom Paulin, Peter Porter, David Norbrook, Donna Landry, David Edgar, Richard Foreman, Andrew Motion, Alan Sinfield, Ailbhe Smyth, Jean-Michel Rabaté and Maureen Duffy.

The University Library’s resources include huge electronic databases, such as Literature Online (LION), Early-English Books Online (EEBO), and Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO). We also subscribe to JStor and Project Muse.

Research in theatre studies is enhanced by our excellent facilities (recently upgraded to industry standards), and the Department houses the Richard Foreman archive.

Drama staff also work with the University Arts to provide research-oriented theatre events, and arrangements are in hand for collaboration with the new Curve Theatre in Leicester for students to work closely with the profession on collaborative projects.