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Research centres

The Department contributes to the work of the following research centres within the College:

• The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters
• The Dr Williams’s Centre
• The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

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 Centre for Editing Lives and Letters

The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) is a Research Centre established in 2002 by funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It is a unique facility for large- and small-scale editing projects in historical biography, diaries, correspondence, and other works in the period 1500-1800.

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 The Dr Williams's Centre

The Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies is a collaboration between the Department of English at Queen Mary, and Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, London, under the joint directorship of Isabel Rivers, Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture in the Department of English, and Dr David Wykes, Director of Dr Williams's Library and Research Fellow at Queen Mary.

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 The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

Established in 2005, The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies aims to consider how new scholarship and new interdisciplinary methods and approaches have refigured our understanding of several developments traditionally associated with the term and period Renaissance. The Centre aims to address these issues by covering a range of themes and topics, delivered in a number of ways to academics and the public. It offers an MA in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, as well as public lectures and collaborations with other institutions.