Harlaxton College takes pride in the quality of its academic programmes and the work of our faculty and students.

Faculty Research

The current research interests of our British Studies faculty and visiting faculty are both wide and varied, and general details can be found on our Current Faculty page.

Individual research interests are shown below:

• Edward Bujak, PhD (University of East Anglia)
  Associate Professor in British Studies and History
• David Green, PhD (University of Nottingham)
  Senior Lecturer and Team Leader in British Studies
• Philip Taylor, PhD (University of Lancaster)
  Teaching Fellow in British Studies
  

Undergraduate Work and Research

Whether it be under the direction of our core British Studies faculty or our visiting faculty from various disciplines, the quality of student work at Harlaxton College is very high.

Essay Award

To celebrate this fact, the College has, for some time, awarded an Essay Award to those students who have excelled in their academic endeavours and produced a piece of academic work or research, or a piece of creative writing or work, worthy of celebration.

Spring 2010

Please follow the links below to read examples of work by Spring 2010 students.

Kelsey Swanson, ‘Guinevere:  Victorian Gender, Sexuality and Nature’. (pdf 180kb)
Winner of the Essay Prize, Spring 2010 (LIT 330: Romancing Arthur: the Arthurian Legend from Celtic Mythology to Hollywood)

Sean Rocke , ‘Three Views of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster’.(pdf 140kb)
Essay Prize Commended Entry, Spring 2010 (ID 382: British Studies)

Sean Rocke, ‘Topicality and Timelessness:  Treason in Macbeth’. (pdf 136kb)
Essay Prize Commended Entry, Spring 2010 (Lit 350: Shakespeare)

Fall 2009

Please follow the links below to read examples of work by Fall 2009 students.

Alissa Young, ‘Deeds, not Words: The Story of Emmeline Pankhurst’. (pdf 144kb)
Winner of the Essay Prize, Fall 2009 (ID 282: British Studies).

Doug T. Graham, ‘Interpreting the King: Analyzing Two Very Different Film Adaptations of Shakespeare's King Henry V’. (pdf 292kb)
Essay Prize, Commended Entry, Fall 2009 (Lit 350: Shakespeare).

Zac Basler, ‘C.S. Lewis: How he Reflected and Influenced his Times’. (pdf 93kb)
Essay Prize, Commended Entry, Fall 2009 (ID 282: British Studies).