Queen Mary has long been distinguished for its work in uniting literary history with innovative research in literary theory and philosophy. Staff in the English Department undertake research in politics, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, theories of subjectivity, narratology, time, feminist theory, postcolonial theory, genre theory, and theories of poetics.

People

Michèle Barrett

Mark Currie

David Duff

Paul Hamilton

Bill Schwarz

Andrew van der Vlies

Sam McBean 

Molly Macdonald