Many of our teaching academics are also “research active” and participate in industry-renowned research and publication outside of the University’s specialist centres. This may be in the form of collaborations with partner institutions or fellow academics, independent works, or particpating in large research groups.
Our academics are known for their contributions to the various canons of their specialisms, and are often invited to be key notes speakers at conferences around the world.
To read more about the research activities of Buckingham’s staff, please visit our Staff Directory to view our academics and their work.
The University of Buckingham Press publishes authoritative, independent research and academic works by Buckingham staff and others in both journals and books.
Browning is best known for his vivid, dramatic ventriloquism, his ability to conjure the voices of historic characters different from himself, … but what would happen if we took his poems seriously in philosophical terms? Read more
The Companion puts Dickens’s work into its literary, historical, and social contexts, and traces the development of Dickens’s career as a journalist and novelist. Read more
This book offers a distinctive analysis of the Anglo-Irish agrarian novel, arguing that these novels constitute a significant sub-genre within Irish Studies – albeit one that has been neglected and misconstrued. Read more
Further to the discovery of an unpublished article by Dickens in The Daily News, reported in 2007, John Drew and Michael Slater offer a full evaluation of the files of the paper for the early months of 1846, when Dickens was employed as literary editor. Read more
Philip Massinger’s The Roman Actor, set at the tyrannous court of the Roman Emperor Domitian and first performed in 1626, includes several examples of a play within a play (“metadrama”). Bill Angus’ new article explores the tensions and interconnections which these embody, at a time when the English theatre was under close supervision by the state. Read more
Achieve IELTS Grammar and Vocabulary is a practice book designed to accompany the Achieve IELTS series. Read more
The book examines the effect that Blake’s mother’s recently discovered Moravianism has had on our understanding of his poetry, and gives special attention to Moravianism and Swedenborgianism and their relation to his sexual politics. This is accomplished by a close reading of Blake’s poetry, examining in detail the subjects of religion, sex, and the attempted colonisation of Africa by a Swedenborgian utopian group. Read more
Parleyings (1887) shows an interesting mind grappling with some contemporary issues relating to democracy, progress, international organisation, aesthetics, religion, science and secularisation, in ways that sometimes echo today. For Asolando (1889), the coda to Browning’s whole oeuvre, this is the first full critical edition since its original publication. Read more