Institute of English Studies

Institute of English Studies

Type	Graduate school
Established	1999 (1999)
Parent institution	School of Advanced Study, University of London
Location	London, England , United Kingdom
Website	www.ies.sas.ac.uk

The Institute of English Studies (abbreviated as IES) is a centre of excellence in the research, promotion and facilitation in the field English Literature and Language. With a specialisation in book history, palaeography and textual scholarship, the IES facilitates the advanced study and research of English Studies in the national and international academic community. The Institute, located in Senate House, London, is one of the nine institutes that together comprise the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

History

The Institute was founded as the Centre for English Studies in 1991. Institute status was conferred by the University Council on 2 December 1998, and it officially became known as the Institute of English Studies on New Year's Day, 1999. The Institute faced closure in 2014, but a successful campaign in 2014 resulted in the reversal of this decision.

Networks

The Institute is partner in a number of important research networks and collaborations. In 2001 it helped establish the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, a collaboration between The British Library, St Bride Library, University of London Research Library Services (ULRLS), The English Department, University of Birmingham, School of English, University of Reading, Literature Department, Open University, The Shakespeare Institute, and The Centre for Textual Studies, De Montfort University. It hosts and administers two prestigious and distinguished societies: The Bibliographical Society and The Malone Society and provides administrative support to the London Palaeography Teachers' Group.

Research

The Institute is a leading organisation in the research of English literary studies. Current projects include:

• The Matrix Reloaded: Establishing Cataloguing & Research Guidelines for Artefacts of Printing Images
• Early Modern Frisket Sheets
• Yellow Text Blocks

Previous and ongoing projects include:

• Make do and mend: A publishing and communications history of the Ministry of Information,
• A History of Oxford University Press,
• the T. S. Eliot Editorial Project,
• the Virtual Museum of Writing,
• Revising the Canon of Elizabethan Drama,
• A Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts, 1450–1700,
• The Collected Works of John Ford,
• The Oxford Francis Bacon Project,
• Reading Experience Database,
• DigCim: a Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts (in collaboration with the British Library,
• "Between Two Worlds": Authors and Publishers 1870-1939 and
• The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century.

Publications

The Institute of English is home to the Yeats Annual, edited by Professor Warwick Gould, and published in association with Palgrave Macmillan.

Staff & Fellows

The intellectual and scholarly community of the Institute thrives due to the collaboration between IES Staff, Distinguished and Senior Research Fellows, Associate Fellows, Visiting Fellows and Students.

Among the Academic Staff at the Institute are:

• Warwick Gould (Director)
• Simon Eliot (Chair in History of the Book)
• Michelle Brown (Chair in Medieval Manuscripts)
• Wim Van Mierlo (Lecturer in Textual Scholarship and English Literature)
• Marcus Dahl (Lecturer in Authorship Studies)

Senior Research Fellows of the Institute include:

• Sir Brian Vickers
• Jerome McGann
• John Haffenden
• Ronald Schuchard
• Hans Walter Gabler
• Aamer Hussein
• Coral Howells
• Jane Roberts
• Ian Willison
• Sir Christopher Ricks
• W. J. McCormack
• Colin Smyth
• William St. Clair
• Henry Woudhuysen
• Peter Beal
• Anthony J. West
• Robin Alston
• R.F. Foster
• Sandra Clark

External links

• Homepage