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
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 2027.
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Mikiya Sakamoto, co-supervised by Dr Nicoletta Asciuto and Prof. Erica Sheen, has received honourable mention in the Young Scholar Award competition, from The English Literary Society of Japan, for his article entitled 'Ineffability and Incarnational Poetics in 'Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats''.
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Huge congratulations to Dr Nicoletta Asciuto, whose book 'Brilliant Modernism' has been awarded the ESSE 2026 First Book Award at an award ceremony in Santiago de Compostela.
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Congratulations to Dr Adam Perchard whose work 'Leviathan' has won the inaugural Hogarth Prize.
Events
Modern School event with filmmaker Eshan Sharma
CECS Research Seminar with Mark Towsey, University of Liverpool
The first in a series of three seminars in 2026/27 by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
The first in a series of three lectures in 2026/27 by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
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