Our research strengths clustered around a range of specific periods and areas of study: medieval and early modern literature, including editing texts; the history of the book and publishing; Welsh Writing in English; Romantic and modern literature; and creative writing, with specific approaches informed by gender, social class, ideology, as well as the relationships between literature and art, and literature and religion. We had an overall ranking for our publications which placed us in the top twenty English Literature departments in the UK.
Research centres and Institutes at, or partnered with, Bangor University include: The Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS), a collaborative research institute between Bangor University and Aberystwyth University; The R. S. Thomas Centre; The Centre for Arthurian Studies, a hub for international research and exchange in Arthurian Studies which draws on the University’s historic strengths in the field; The Stephen Colclough Centre for the History and Culture of the Book, housed in the University Library and Special Collections and a focal point the study of the book as a material object.