Romanticism and 19th Century Literature

Award Award	Duration Duration	Start dates Start dates	Application Application
PhD (MPhil also available) PhD (MPhil also available)	Full-time: 3–4 years Part-time: 6–8 years Full-time: 3–4 years Part-time: 6–8 years	October 2027 October 2027	Ends 8 January 2027 Ends 8 January 2027

English and Creative Writing is home to world-leading and field-defining research in the literature and culture of the Romantic period and long nineteenth century. We specialize in material culture, periodical culture, travel-writing and literary tourism, the representation of vagrancy, slavery and slave-narratives, British and American fiction (especially historical fiction, women’s writing, and children’s literature), book history, and the interconnections between literature and music, empire and colonialism, war, and disability.

Our academics and research students work across and within a number of lively research groupings within and beyond English and Creative Writing, including HOBAR (History of Books, Authorship, and Reading), PGLRG (Post-colonial and Global Literatures Research Group), GOTH (Gender and Otherness in the Humanities), Literature and Music, and Digital Humanities.

We work with museums, libraries and archives across the UK and Europe to develop research impact and knowledge exchange, and we facilitate similar opportunities for our research students.

Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent). If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English.

UK fee UK fee	International fee International fee
Full-time: £5,006 per year Full-time: £5,006 per year	Full-time: £12,705 per year Full-time: £12,705 per year
Part-time: £2,503 per year Part-time: £2,503 per year	Part-time: £6,353 per year Part-time: £6,353 per year

Some of our research students are funded via the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership; others are self-funded.

For detailed information about fees and funding, visit Fees and studentships.

To see current funded studentship vacancies across all research areas, see Current studentships.

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