2025 news
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.
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.
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'.
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.