Our department is an active center of academic research, with faculty involved in a variety of research projects across many periods and forms of literature. You can find out more about the research interests and publications of individual department members by visiting our People page. Below are some results of the research activities undertaken by members of the department:
Recent Books
Timothy Wright, Mutant City: Johannesburg Imaginaries in Twenty-First Century Speculative Film and Fiction (Wits University Press, 2026).
Atti Viragh and Marion Thain, eds., Mind and Embodiment in Late Victorian Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2025).
Jonathan C. Williams, Melancholic Life: Literary Expression and the Experience of History from Burton to Keats (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Recent articles and book chapters
Atti Viragh, “Close Reading and the Hermeneutic Circle of Attention” in Close Reading as Attentional Practice, eds. Marion Thain and Ewan Jones (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2026), 198–218.
Ceylan Köşker Bevington, “The Domestic Transformations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula in The Formative Years of the Turkish Republic”, Adaptation in Turkish Literature, Cinema and Media ed. Seda Oz and Taner Can (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2024), 39-56.
Ivana Bičak, “From Praising the Remedy to Eulogising the Patient: Cristóbal de Castillejo’s Satire of Guaiac in Early Modern Spain,” Social History of Medicine 37.1 (2024): 141-59.
Ayşe Çelikkol, “Historical Ecologies in Heterodox Economic Thought and Literary Realism of the 1860s,” in Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: the 1860s, ed. Pamela K. Gilbert (Cambridge University Press, 2024), pp. 254-71.
Forthcoming
Apala Das, “Abundance, Scarcity, and the Question of Translatability in Raymond Carver and Ai Jiang’s Meta-Minimalist Fiction,” co-authored with Robert McGill and Connor Bennett (accepted and forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies, 2026).