People
Department of English and Related Literature
Discover a world of literature at York.
Research
Our research ranges across periods and around the globe.
We nurture an environment for collaboration, critical and creative thinking, interdisciplinary work and thought-provoking discussion.
Texts and narrative shape and change the world. Our commitment to understanding how literature reflects and makes the past, present and future is embedded within curiosity-driven modules and flexible degrees that are delivered by expert teachers, researchers and writers.
Professor Jennie Batchelor, Head of Department
News
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Warm congratulations to Anthony Capildeo, who has won the Saltire Society Award for Poetry Book of the Year for 'Polkadot Wounds' (Carcanet, 2024).
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Warm congratulations to Dr Lola Boorman on the publication of her monograph 'Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Fiction' (Edinburgh University Press).
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The University of York is pleased to be awarding six AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards and three Wolfson Humanities Postgraduate Scholarships for doctoral research beginning in September 2026.
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Congratulations to former English PhD student, Sharon Choe, who has her first novel coming out next year.
Events
Modern Research School Berthoud Symposium in honour of Prof. Wen-chin Ouyang, Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, SOAS.
Modern Research School Annual Berthoud Lecture with speaker Professor Wen-chin Ouyang, Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, SOAS.
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Conrad Steel (Oxford).
Medieval Literatures Seminar with speaker Professor Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford).
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