A distinct research strength of staff and postgraduates at Loughborough is our attention to ‘the contemporary’. We ask critical questions about how the contemporary is experienced, theorised, produced, and contested across contemporary culture.

Our research group has a wealth of expertise in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture, considering transitions and continuities between the 'Victorian' to the 'modern'. We have particular interests in the Gothic, sensation and Weird fiction, the fin-de-siècle and modernism.

Our research explores the intersection of English, Humanities, Health, Healthcare, and Wellbeing. We have particular interests in mental health in the nineteenth century, ageing and contemporary culture, early modern dietary culture, and early modern women’s health, pregnancy, and childbirth.

Editing and Textual Scholarship is a research group working on the production, dissemination, and reception of literature, and how to re-present the texts from the past for new readers in the present.