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
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.
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The results of the 2025 National Student Survey have revealed the strengths of the Department of English and Related Literature in ‘teaching on my course’, ‘learning opportunities’, ‘academic support’, ‘organisation and management’, ‘learning resources’ and ‘student voice’.
York is ranked 6th in the UK for English in the latest release of the Complete University Guide league tables (2026).
Congratulations to Dr Nicoletta Asciuto on her new Italian translation of Hope Mirrlees's 'Paris: A Poem'.
Events
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 this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Annual Patrides lecture with speaker Professor Emma Smith (Sussex).
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