Literary Linguistics at the University of Sheffield
Our Masters courses
Research with us
The Literary Linguistics Research Cluster is proud of its thriving and collegial postgraduate research community. We offer excellent PhD supervision in an inclusive, interdisciplinary environment with world-class facilities. We welcome applications from postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:
cognitive poetics
dialect in literature and film
empirical stylistics
gender, power, and politics in the language of literature
historical stylistics
language in the literatue of exile
language, literature, and phenomenology
language, text, and arts practice
linguistic ideas in literature (e.g. fictional explorations of multilingualism
or of the relationship between language and power)
literary style from the Medieval period to the present day
Text World Theory
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities offers a range of different funding opportunities for talented PhD students every year. To find out more about the funding available and how to apply, click here.