2025 news

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'.

Congratulations to Dr Shazia Jagot who has been awarded two Editor of Distinction Awards!

Congratulations to former English student on the publication of his poems by Renard Press.

Warm congratulations to Dr Alison O'Byrne and Professor Jim Watt on the publication of their co-edited collection.

David Moody (who retired from the Department in 1999) and Joanna Moody (who retired in 2006) drove from Pateley Bridge to deliver the books in person.

Researchers at the University of York are working with Harewood House to shed new light on the social and cultural life of the country house in celebration of 250 years of novelist, Jane Austen, and painter, JMW Turner.

Huge congratulations to Anthony V. Capildeo, Writer in Residence in the Department of English and Related Literature, on being awarded the Windham Campbell Prize for poetry.

English at York placed 8th in the UK and 32nd in the world according to the latest release of the QS World University Rankings by subject (2025).

Warm congratulations to Dr Caroline Ritchie on the publication of her monograph 'William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination'.

We have been ranked 54th in the world and 11th in the UK for the study of Arts and Humanities in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings by subject. The ranking recognises the quality of our courses, and the experiences and opportunities they provide to our students.

Warm congratulations to Dr Alison O'Byrne on the publication of her monograph 'The Art of Walking in London: Representing the Eighteenth-Century City, 1700–1830'.

Kevin Killeen's book, ‘Unknowable in Early Modern England’ has won the Milton Society of America John T. Shawcross Award.