Posted on Tuesday 11 June 2013

English Department lecturer Alice Hall has been named as one of ten 2013 New Generation Thinkers by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the BBC.

Posted on Tuesday 11 June 2013

Under the title 'Poetry and Rivers', the poet Alice Oswald along with Professor Hugh Haughton did a double-event at Senate House, University of London.

Posted on Friday 3 May 2013

We are delighted to announce the creation of two new studentships for MA study commencing in 2013.

Posted on Friday 3 May 2013

Michelle Kelly, Claire Westall and a group of students from the Department of English and Related Literature have been given a Vice-Chancellor's Outstanding Achievement Award for their groundbreaking Prison Fictions and Human Rights project.

Posted on Thursday 2 May 2013

The John Tilney Writer in Residence in the Department this term is the distinguished and versatile South African born writer Gillian Slovo.

Posted on Monday 4 March 2013

Third year undergraduate student Jack Thacker has been awarded the Department's Renaissance Prize for his paper at the Third Year Undergraduate Conference in the Renaissance.

Posted on Friday 1 March 2013

Professor Helen Fulton, Head of the Department of English and Related Literature, gave a short talk at the Westminster Education Forum in London on 26 February

Posted on Monday 24 September 2012

The Department is pleased to welcome Paul Mills as Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow for 2012-13.

Posted on Tuesday 14 August 2012

Jon Wilcox, a third-year undergraduate in the Department of English and Related Literature, has been awarded a prestigious prize from the University of Lausanne in recognition of his exceptional results as a visiting student.

Posted on Wednesday 8 August 2012

The Department of English and Related Literature will be part of a competition for three fully-funded places for postgraduate research commencing in autumn 2013.

Posted on Monday 9 July 2012

The University of York has been awarded a top 7 UK ranking and a top 27 world ranking in English Language and Literature.

Posted on Wednesday 16 May 2012

York student Ahmed Khaleel was presented with a Higher York Award for Student Volunteering, at a ceremony on 8 May at which his wife Noor also received an award.

Posted on Wednesday 9 May 2012

Laura Hulley, who graduated from York with a starred first in 2010, has been selected as one of the inaugural cohort of Ertegun Scholars for postgraduate study at Oxford.

Posted on Wednesday 9 May 2012

York student Sophie Coulombeau beat strong competition from other talented authors under the age of 30 to win Route’s Next Great Novelist Award.

Posted on Monday 26 March 2012

This summer term 2012 the John Tilney Writer in Residence in the Department of English will be Kamila Shamsie, an English-language Pakistani novelist.

Posted on Monday 26 March 2012

The African branch of Cambridge University Press hosted two highly successful launches of 'The Cambridge History of South African Literature' recently.

Posted on Wednesday 23 November 2011

A proposed new centre for the study of medieval European literature based in York and Odense is set to become a reality thanks to an award of nearly £4.5 million funding from the Danish National Research Foundation.

Posted on Monday 21 November 2011

A play broadcast by University Radio York (URY) and written by second year English Department student Tess Humphrey recently won a Student Radio Award.

Posted on Wednesday 9 November 2011

Professor Mark Ormrod (History), with Dr Craig Taylor (History) and Dr Nicola McDonald (English), have been awarded £784, 545, by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a major new project to explore immigration to England in the period 1330-1550.

Posted on Wednesday 29 June 2011

University of York lecturer, Dr Zoe Norridge, has been named as one of 10 winners of the BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) inaugural New Generation Thinkers Scheme.

Posted on Thursday 20 January 2011

Prison Writings in Early Modern England, a special issue of the Huntington Library Quarterly edited by Professors Bill Sherman (English) and Bill Sheils (History), received the 2009 Voyager Award at this year's MLA convention in Philadelphia.

Posted on Thursday 20 January 2011

The Department is pleased to congratulate Ziad Elmarsafy and Kevin Killeen who have won prestigious prizes for their recent monographs.

Posted on Thursday 20 January 2011

We are delighted to announce that five Doctoral Fellowships have been awarded by the Humanities Research Centre.

Posted on Thursday 20 January 2011

Helen Smith (English) and Simon Ditchfield (History) have just been awarded £457,645 to direct the three-year project: Conversion narratives in Early Modern Europe: a cross-confessional and comparative study, 1550-1700.

Posted on Thursday 18 December 2008

The findings of a panel of top academics reading submissions by 8 departments for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) have led to York being positioned at the head of the league table for research quality.