News

English at York placed 34th in the world according to the latest release of the QS World University Rankings by subject (2024).

We are delighted to announce that the department has been awarded Athena SWAN Silver status until 2029.

Warm congratulations to Professor Erica Sheen on the publication of her book, 'Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War' (Oxford University Press).

Sharon Choe, who completed her BA, MA and PhD studies at CECS, has been awarded a two-year Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on a project based at the University of Copenhagen.

Congratulations to Dr Sana R. Chaudhry who has been awarded The Mozhi Prize 2023 for her translation of Fahmida Riaz’s short story ‘Flights of Birds’ from the Urdu.

The SI Leeds Literary Prize proudly announces Haleemah Alaydi as the recipient of the Space to Write Bursary, generously supported by Arvon. The bursary is designed to develop the craft and confidence of an unpublished female writer of colour in the UK.

Warm congratulations to Dr Daniel Matore on the publication of his first book, 'The Graphics of Verse: Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry'.

With generous funding from the Wolfson Foundation, the Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarships fund doctoral research in three areas: History, Literature and Languages.