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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
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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
In an era of communication blackouts, infrastructural fragility, and mediated intimacy, how do we think and write about love? What kinds of messages circulate even when signals falter, and what forms of relation endure even when we are pulled ever fa
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Ned Allen (Cambridge).
Applications are invited to this half-day hybrid workshop to explore the challenges in researching sex work across history.
Medieval Literatures Seminar with speaker Dr Isabel Davis (Natural History Museum, London)
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