3 examples of innovative research in English Literature

3 examples of innovative research in English literature include: 

1. The rise and fall of Black British writing by Dr Malachi McIntosh
   Dr Malachi McIntosh, Editor of Wasafiri Magazine has written an opinion piece for The Conversation. He discusses the boom in interest in the histories of colonialism, empire and the British civil rights movement in response to Black Lives Matter protests. 
2. Charles Dickens and the push for literacy in Victorian Britain by Dr Matthew Ingelby
   Dr Matthew Ingleby has written an opinion piece for The Conversation to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens's death. He reflects on the impact of Dickens and the rise of literacy in the late nineteenth century. 
3. Bad English Literature, multilingualism, and the politics of language in contemporary Britain by Professor Rachael Gilmour
   Bad English investigates the impact of increasing language diversity, precipitated by migration, globalisation, and new forms of communication, in transforming contemporary literature in Britain. Considering writers whose work engages experimentally, playfully, and ambivalently with English’s power, while exploring what it means to move between forms of language, it makes the case for literature as the pre-eminent medium to probe the terms of linguistic belonging, and for a diverse and growing field of writing in Britain defined by its inside/outside relationship to English in its institutionalised forms.
   

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