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"This research unit has made significant gains since REF2014, with respect to its world-leading, 4* profile across outputs, impact and environment in REF2021.
We are proud that they have achieved this while including 100% of their Teaching & Research staff in the submission.
Their impact which includes world-leading research contributes to culture and society in Northern Ireland and beyond."
How we did
Overall
An impressive 80% of our research has been judged as world-leading or internationally excellent.
Environment
87.5% of our research environment has been judged as being conducive to producing research of world-leading or internationally excellent quality and enabling outstanding impact, in terms of its vitality and sustainability
Research Outputs
80% of our research outputs have been judged as world-leading or internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance, and rigour
Research Director
Unit of Assessment Coordinator
Our Team
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Bradford, R Professor | Professor of Literary History & Theory |
| Butler, S Dr | Lecturer in English (Modern Fiction) |
| Byrne, K Dr | Lecturer in English |
| De Ornellas, K Dr | Lecturer in English |
| Ferguson, F Dr | Research Director - English Language and Literature |
| Hancock, T Dr | Lecturer in English Literature |
| Jedrzejewski, J Professor | Professor of English and Comparative Literature |
| Keanie, A Dr | Lecturer in English & History of the Irish Book |
| McCracken, K Dr | Lecturer |
| Murphy, W Dr | Lecturer in Irish Writing in English |
| Ward, J Dr | Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature |
| White, K Dr | Interim Head of School of Arts and Humanities |
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"We are very proud of the our record in research at Ulster University in English literature. We continue to produce outstanding work of exceptional quality.
We are delighted with the quality of our research environment. Ulster University is a brilliant place to nurture, develop and create world-leading and internationally excellent work in English literature."
Impact Case Studies and Environment Statement
View the outputs
- Betjeman's Penelope: Untangling the Roots of "Late-Flowering Lust"'
- Biography as Myth-Making: Obfuscation and Invention in Victorian and Post-Victorian Literary Biography
- Edwardians on Screen: From Downton Abbey to Parade's End
- ‘English, Irished': Union and Violence in the Fiction of John and Michael Banim
- Existential precursors and contemporaries in Banville's Alex Cleave trilogy
- Lasting First Impressions : On the Origins of Ambivalent Attitudes to the Lake Poets, Cockney Keats, and Satanic Shelley
- Literary Rivals: Feuds and Antagonisms in the World of Books
- Memory and Enlightenment : Cultural Afterlives of the Long Eighteenth Century
- Meu Nome Sendo Chamado' : Ecfrase e autoinscricao nos livros de galenas de arte de Paul Durcan
- Mustabeens and Mightabeens: The Unknowability of English Renaissance Playwrights
- On Not Doing for England’s Bard What He Did for Ireland’s Bards: Samuel Ferguson’s Shakespearean Breviates
- Orwell: A Man of Our Time
