About CTTR

Director: Professor Sebastien Groes

Deputy Director: Dr Benjamin Colbert

The Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research (CTTR) is located in the Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences, University of Wolverhampton, with Honorary Research Professors and Fellows based at major research institutes in Poland and the Netherlands.

Founded in 2010, CTTR promotes multidisciplinary research around a core of research specialisms in English Literature, Creative Writing, Religious Studies, Linguistics, Media Studies, Philosophy and Politics. Its members have contributed world leading and internationally excellent research to the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise for English Language & Literature and for Area Studies.

Members’ research includes the AHRC funded Novel Perceptions project investigating prublic perceptions of literary quality in Britain; a British Academy-funded database project, British Women’s Travel Writing 1780-1840: Communities of Authorship; and a Leverhulme-funded investigation, Dalit Punjab Identity and Experience. Other research ranges from Medieval literature and queer drama to Suffragette literature; from the politics of deportation in post-Brexit Britain to the philosophy of caste in the works of the South Indian leader, Periyar Ramasamy. In all of this research is a concern with the permeable borders between experience, literature, culture, and peoples in the present and in the past.

The Centre also supports postgraduate research with its MA English (Literature), MA Regional Writing (Creative Writing), and MA Popular Culture, as well as PhD research in all the areas of its members’ research specialisms.