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

Senate House (University of London)

Senate House is the administrative centre of the University of London, situated in the heart of Bloomsbury, London between the School of Oriental and African Studies to the north, with the British Museum to the south...

, London, is one of the ten institutes that together comprise the School of Advanced Study

School of Advanced Study

The School of Advanced Study, a postgraduate institution of the University of London, is the UK's national centre for the promotion and facilitation of research in the humanities and social sciences...

, University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

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History

The Institute of English Studies began as the Centre for English Studies (CES) in 1991 and soon became a Programme of the School of Advanced Study

School of Advanced Study

The School of Advanced Study, a postgraduate institution of the University of London, is the UK's national centre for the promotion and facilitation of research in the humanities and social sciences...

 on its foundation in 1994. The University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

 Council conferred institute status on the CES on 2 December 1998 granting it official status as the Institute of English Studies on 1 January 1999.

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 also hosts and administers two prestigious and distinguished societies: The Bibliographical Society and The Malone Society.

Research

The Institute is a leading organisation in the research of English Literary Studies where it hosts and manages a variety of research projects such as: 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, an Old-Spelling Edition of the Works of John Ford and The Oxford Francis Bacon Project. Previous research projects have included the 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)
• Sandra Clark (Deputy 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
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• John Haffenden
  John Haffenden
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• Ronald Schuchard
• Hans Walter Gabler
• Aamer Hussein
  Aamer Hussein
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• 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
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Membership

The IES offers a membership scheme which allow members attend its many Research Seminars for free as well as receive a discount for IES conferences.