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
The Department of English and Related Literature has placed 7th in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026 for the subject of English. The ranking recognises the quality of our courses, and the experiences and opportunities they provide to our students.
It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of our former colleague Jack Donovan.
For International Youth Day 2025, Dr Shazia Jagot joined the British Council and Think Insights for a podcast to discuss the importance, limitations, and opportunities for digital youth engagement in addressing global challenges.
Congratulations to Daniel Matore, whose monograph, 'The Graphics of Verse: Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry' (Oxford University Press, 2023), has won the University English Book Prize.
Events
All welcome at our first CECS research seminar. Please join us for two presentations from international scholars.
Join us for a conversation and reading with Rozie Kelly, who will discuss her novel 'Kingfisher', a beautifully crafted, compelling novel about grief, power and desire – and the tangles in between that make up a life.
Dr Rachael Scarborough King, CECS British Academy International Fellow ((University of California, Santa Barbara), discusses the ethics of care.
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Maya Caspari (York).
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