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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
Warm congratulations to Dr Lola Boorman on the publication of her monograph 'Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Fiction' (Edinburgh University Press).
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 2026.
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Congratulations to former English PhD student, Sharon Choe, who has her first novel coming out next year.
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Congratulations to our recently graduated student Jack Mackay (2021-2024), who has published his debut novel 'Gloam', a Gothic horror fiction aimed at the middle grade market, to enormous acclaim.
Events
Medieval Literatures Seminar with speaker Professor Kenneth Clarke (York).
The first in a series of three seminars this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
The first in a series of three lectures on 2025/26 by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
Join us for this book launch and conversation with Claude Cahun translator, Susan Demuth and Dr Boriana Alexandrova. A Centre for Women's Studies event.
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