J. (John) Flood, Dr

2026-2027

• Transformations: English Literature from the Early Modern to the Digital Age (BA 2)

• Identities and Ideologies from Medieval to Modern (BA 2)

• Strangers: The Alien World of Early Modern Literature (BA 2)

• Research Topics in English Literature: Order and Conflict in Renaissance England (MA)

• Tragedy: Experiments in Pain and Pleasure (MA)

I supervise theses every year. Supervisors are allocated by the department, not by individual staff members, but anyone may discuss their dissertation plans with me.

Previous Teaching

BA Courses

• Introduction to Literature (Year 1)
• Pleasures of the Text (Year 1)
• Literary Theory for English Studies (Year 1)
• English Literary Texts in Context (Year 1)
• English Literature After 1550 (Year 1)
• Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature (Year 2)
• The Long Nineteenth Century (Year 2)
• BA Thesis Co-ordination (Year 3)

MA Courses

• Shakespeare's Texts and Afterlives
• Theatre: History & Conventions
• The Digital Text
• Literature and the Meaning of Life
• Literature's Society
• The Others: Outsiders and Malcontents
• Women, Men and Sex in the Renaissance
• Writing, Editing and Mediating 4

PhD Supervision

Stephanie R. D. Schierhuber, ‘Sleep, watch, and extended cognition in Spenserian epic and Shakespearean drama.’ Conferred 2021.