Research projects
Our researchers are engaged in re-discovering authors, challenging the literary canon and bringing new approaches to bear on established texts.
Editing Aphra Behn in the digital age
2016-2020
Funding: £752,247
Lead: Professor Elaine Hobby
Through systematically integrating digital and established methods, E-ABIDA will produce and disseminate a new, comprehensive edition of Aphra Behn (1640-89), one of the most important English Restoration writers.
The complete works of Evelyn Waugh
2013-2018
Funding: £822,481
Lead: Dr Barbara Cooke (PI Professor Martin Stannard, University of Leicester)
Five-year AHRC-funded project, working to create the first ever Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. Forty-three volumes will bring together Waugh’s extensive collections of novels, biographies, travel writing, essays, articles, reviews, letters, diaries, drawings and designs.
The Kinesemiotic Body: a pragmatic account of the local discourse organisation of dance
2020 - 2023
Funding: £337,276/ € 345,602
Lead: Dr Arianna Maiorani, Professor John Bateman (PI in Germany)
A UK-German Collaborative Research Project, this AHRC-funded project brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers with expertise in linguistics, multimodal semiotics, empirical human-motion studies, and dance in order to evaluate the extent to which an explicit, linguistically-motivated formal and functional notion of multimodal discourse can deepen our understanding of how the movement-based medium of dance communicates.