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Department of English and Related Literature
Discover a world of literature at York.
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
News
The Department of English and Related Literature and Thin Ice Press: York Centre for Print are delighted to announce that Rare Book School is coming to York.
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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.
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Warm congratulations to Irina Tautschnig, who has been awarded the University of Innsbruck's 2025 annual Literature Prize.
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Warm congratulations to Anthony Capildeo, who has won the Saltire Society Award for Poetry Book of the Year for 'Polkadot Wounds' (Carcanet, 2024).
Events
CECS Research Seminar with speaker Désha Osborne, University of Edinburgh.
Medieval Literatures Seminar with speaker Professor Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford).
The second in a series of three seminars in 2025/26 by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
The second in a series of three lectures in 2025/26 by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
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