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More league table success for English at York

York confirms its place among the world's most highly regarded English departments in the QS World Rankings by subject 2021.

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Publication News! 'The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense'

Posted on Wednesday 17 November 2021

Congratulations to Dr James Williams, who has co-edited an important new collection, offering a comprehensive view of literary nonsense.

Book Prize Success for 'The Outside Thing'

Posted on Tuesday 16 November 2021

Congratulations to Dr Hannah Roche, who has been awarded an Honourable Mention for her monograph, 'The Outside Thing: Modernist Lesbian Romance', which was shortlisted for the prestigious University English Book Prize.

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Events

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Religion, Spiritualism and Occultism in Irish Literature: Nineteenth Century to the Present

This conference will explore how the Victorian proliferation of interest in spiritualism and the occult shape Irish literature during the nineteenth century and in its aftermath.

Wed

Jan

An Outline of Psychoanalysis

The first in a series of three seminars this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.

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