Research Projects

The School of English is home to a number of funded research projects. Current and recent examples include:

Archives of Exile (AHRC)

Dialect Representation in British Fiction 1800-1836 (British Academy, AHRC)

Early Modern Manuscript Poetry: Recovering our Scribal Heritage (AHRC)

English in Europe: Opportunity or Threat? (Leverhulme); contact a.r.linn@shef.ac.uk

Ola Nordmann Goes West (AHRC)

Participating in Search Design: A Study of George Thomason’s Newsbooks

Scilly Voices: Language and Oral History on the Isles of Scilly, Emma More

Twentieth-century Letter Writing (British Academy); contact j.s.ellis@shef.ac.uk

Translating Performance (AHRC) ; contact r.d.steadman-jones@shef.ac.uk

Undocumented varieties of spoken English in present-day Zimbabwe (British Academy); contact s.fitzmaurice@shef.ac.uk

Writing in the Home and in the Street (AHRC)