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This half-day hybrid workshop, to be held on the morning of Friday 20th March, invites scholars, students, and those in related fields from to explore the challenges in researching sex work across history. It particularly addresses the difficulties when dealing with historical sources, literature, visual culture, and other secondary accounts.

Warm congratulations to Irina Tautschnig, who has been awarded the University of Innsbruck's 2025 annual Literature Prize.

Warm congratulations to Anthony Capildeo, who has won the Saltire Society Award for Poetry Book of the Year for 'Polkadot Wounds' (Carcanet, 2024).

Warm congratulations to Dr Lola Boorman on the publication of her monograph 'Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Fiction' (Edinburgh University Press).

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.

Congratulations to former English PhD student, Sharon Choe, who has her first novel coming out next year.

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.

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.