Bring your ideas and your curiosity
If you decide to spend a period of time on the Birmingham campus, you will become a member of our Centre for Advanced Research in English (CARE), and will be based in Westmere, the handsome Victorian house on the northern edge of the campus which also houses the Centre for English Language Studies.
Westmere is a pleasant five-minute walk from the Arts Building, where the Literature (and some Language) staff are found, and from the University Library, the Barber Institute with its remarkable collection of paintings and sculpture, and other campus facilities. The centre of the city of Birmingham itself is fifteen minutes away by bus or local train (the University has its own railway station).
We are happy to welcome visiting academics and independent scholars to the English Department, where we can provide workspace, networked computing (including e-mail), full use of library and other scholarly resources, access to the 450-million-word Bank of English corpus, and of course the opportunity to discuss your work with congenial colleagues. You will also be welcome to attend any of our weekly research seminars in language and literature, and there may be an opportunity to sit in on some of our specialist postgraduate courses.