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
News
Discoveries is the writer development programme of the Women's Prize, and is awarded annually from an entrant pool of thousands.
News
The Department of English and Related Literature invites you to join us in a Celebration of the past, present and future of Creative Writing at York.
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York placed 9th in the UK and 28th in the world for the study of English Language & Literature in the latest release of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, 2026.
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Congratulations to English Postdoc Becca Drake, who has started working with Senate House as their Printer In Residence.
Events
The Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Copley Lecture with speaker Ros Ballaster, Mansfield College, University of Oxford.
In this workshop with illustrious author and editor Karen McCarthy Woolf, you will develop your own practice and deepen your understanding of creative-critical writing, with a particular focus on intersectional ecofeminist approaches such as thinking
Legendary publishing house Faber and Faber presents 'Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority', a revelatory contribution to the recent surge in nature writing.
We are delighted to announce ‘A Celebration of Poetry and her sister Arts’, an event to celebrate the work of Prof. Anthony V. Capildeo, Writer in Residence in the Department of English and Related Literature.
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