Literature and Culture
Research in this cluster interrogates the relationship between written texts and the cultures from which they emerge and within which they are interpreted.
Viewing literature as one cultural practice among others, we are particularly interested in the relationships between literary texts and the following: urban space, globalisation, gender, and political activism. Members of the cluster specialise in periods from the eighteenth century to the contemporary, and in genres including literary naturalism, Jewish writing, detective fiction in literary, cinematic, and televisual forms, and ‘chick lit’ and ‘chick flicks’ from Britain and the USA.