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.
Michèle Barrett
Mark Currie
David Duff
Paul Hamilton
Bill Schwarz
Andrew van der Vlies
Rachael Gilmour
Sam McBean
Molly Macdonald