The English Department offers supervision at MA and PhD level on the relations of literature and science from the Romantic period onwards. Sharon Ruston has particular expertise on the life sciences and concepts of vitality in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She has published on these topics in Romanticism and in the Fitzroy Dearborn Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era; her book, Shelley and Vitality, will be published by Palgrave in 2005.

 

Recent and Forthcoming Staff Publications

Sharon Ruston. 'Humphry Davy' and 'Electricity and Magnetism'. The Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, ed. Chris Murray (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2002)

---. 'One of the "Modern Sceptics": Reappraising Shelley's Medical Education'. Romanticism 9.1 (2003): 1-19.

---. Shelley and Vitality. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005.

 

For further details see individual pages, or the department publications page.

 

Further Information

For further information about the supervision available in the department, please contact the senior postgraduate tutor, Dr Michael Whitworth:

English Department, Bangor University, LL57 2DG, UK.

Telephone: +44 (0)1248 382196 or +44 (0)1248 382102 Fax: +44 (0)1248 382102

E-mail: justin.edwards@bangor.ac.uk