Postgraduate and Research
English at the University of Chichester is part of the thriving research culture (click for information on English staff research) which exists within the Faculty of Business, Arts and Humanities (BAH). Research students benefit from training sessions and reading groups aimed at postgraduates, and also have the opportunity to attend the annual programme of visiting national and international speakers. Postgraduate students are supervised by active researchers who regularly publish in prestigious academic journals, write textbooks and monographs, and speak at international and national conferences. Students can also benefit from the South Coast Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Research Group (SCERRG), which aims to provide a dynamic research environment for students working in those fields.
The English Department offers programmes of study leading to the award of the higher degrees of MPhil (circa 50,000 words) and PhD (circa 80,000 words). These programmes are available as full-time and part-time study options. As well as the MPhil or PhD in Creative Writing, candidates may consider the possibility of a joint critical/creative an MPhil or PhD in English and Creative Writing.
Expert supervision for these is available in the following areas:
- Creative Writing (contemporary fiction, poetry and drama)
- Early Modern Drama
- Romantic and eighteenth-century Women’s Writing
- Children’s Literature
- Fantasy Literature
- 20th C Literatures
- Contemporary Literature
- Post colonialism
- Critical Theory
- Canadian Literature
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For further details please contact Dr Bill Gray b.gray@chi.ac.uk. For more information on research opportunities at Chichester, please visit Postgraduate and Research.
Research Supervisors
Dr Diana Barsham Research Supervisor
Contact details: Tel +44 (0)1243 816
Web profile: Dr Diana Barsham
Specialism: literary life-writing
Dr Robert Duggan Research Supervisor
Contact details: Tel +44 (0)1243 816235
Web profile: Dr Robert Duggan
Specialism: Contemporary British Fiction
Dr Isla Duncan Research Supervisor
Contact details: Tel: +44 (0)1243 816165 Email: i.duncan@chi.ac.uk
Web profile: Dr Isla Duncan
Specialism: Canadian Literature; Critical Linguistics.
Professor Bill Gray Research Supervisor
Contact details: Tel: +44 (0)1243 816208 Email: b.gray@chi.ac.uk
Web profile: Dr Bill Gray
Specialism: Religion and Literature; Hermeneutics and Reader Theory; 19th Century Scottish Literature; Fantasy Fiction for Children for All Ages; C S Lewis; R LStevenson.
Dr Stephanie Norgate Research Supervisor
Contact details: Tel +44 (0)1243 816296 Email: S.Norgate@chi.ac.uk
Web profile: Dr Stephanie Norgate
Specialism: contemporary poetry, creative writing and contemporary drama. I would particularly welcome applications for creative Ph.Ds in poetry
Dr Fiona Price Research Supervisor
Contact details: Tel: +44 (0)1243 816326 Email: f.price@chi.ac.uk
Web profile: Dr Fiona Price
Specialism: Romanticism; Romantic Women’s Writing; aesthetics in the late 18th Century; the eighteenth-century and Romantic historical novel.
Dr Duncan Salkeld Research Supervisor
Contact details: Tel: +44 (0)1243 816184 Email: d.salkeld@chi.ac.uk
Web profile: Dr Duncan Salkeld
Specialism: Early Modern Drama.
Professor Alison MacLeod Research Supervisor
Contact details: Tel: +44 (0)1243 816297 Email: a.macleod@chi.ac.uk
Web profile: Dr Alison MacLeod
Specialism: The Contemporary Novel and Short Story; Theories of Creative Process.
Dr Benjamin Noys (Reader) Research Supervisor
Contact details:Tel: +44 (0)1243 816405 Email: b.noys@chi.ac.uk
Web profile: Dr Benjamin Noys
Specialism: Critical Theory (Contemporary European. Philosophy and Psychoanalysis) The Cultural Politics of the Image American Literature and European Literature in Translation.