Research Degrees in English Studies
Docotal research supervision is available in the Institute of English Studies in the following broad areas:
- Late nineteenth and early twentieth century literature
- The literature of the Irish Revival
- The history of the book
- Business and quantitative book history
- The history of authorship and author-publisher relations
- The history of individual publishing houses
- The history of literary agency from the 1880s
- The history of book and newspaper distribution and selling
- The history of libraries
- The history of readers and reading
- The history of artificial lighting
- Anglo-American modernism
- Anglo-Irish literature of the twentieth century
- Romanticism
- James Joyce
- Modern manuscript studies and genetic criticism
- Reading notes and marginalia
- Textual criticism
- Reception history
- Literary history
To make an application for a research degree, speak first to the manager of the Institute. Your particular research interest may be able to be supported, even though it is not listed.
Research degrees can be completed on a full-time basis (up to four years) or on a part-time basis (up to seven years).
Before agreeing to accept you, the Institute will require you to submit a research proposal, so it is worthwhile having this drafted ahead of a formal application. Guidelines on drafting your research proposal.
Once in contact with the Institute, they will put you in touch with a potential supervisor. It is important that you discuss your outline research proposal with them, and that you feel that you can work together. Your supervisor will discuss any further development or re-focusing of your proposal before the formal application is taken to the Institute Research Degrees Committee for approval.
