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Welcome to the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York #UoY. 8th in UK University Guide A world top 35 Department Athena Swan Silver Award
#DidYouKnow our module "Green Romanticism: Nature, Ecology, Calamity" explores a period when writers struggled to understand the place of ‘the human’ in current ecocritical debates: ‘Nature’, ‘Ecology,’ ‘Anthropocene,’ ‘Nonhuman’; ‘Materialism,’ ‘Capitalism,’ and ‘Catastrophe.’
As a literature student at #York, you'll have the opportunity to experience the relationship between writing and printing through research, teaching and workshops, and the chance to put this into practice in the Thin Ice Press, our very own printing studio.
See the range of upcoming events in the Department of English and Related Literature, including Sara Teasdale, Ireland's bogs, a Medievalist at the Natural History Museum
#DidYouKnow our #postgraduate module 'Gothic Bodies' explores a range of texts that focus on different aspects of embodiment, asking how bodily pain is imagined and how the Gothic treats specific figures like the mother or the mute.
#DidYouKnow our #postgraduate module "Writing Worlds: Power, Publishing & Resistance" explores how international writers, artists and publishers register, diagnose, and resist global power structures through creative work. www.york.ac.uk/students/stu...
"Words and Matter: Notes toward a collective intersectional feminist vocabulary". Friday 6 March. This talk is structured as a series of notes drawn from academic practice and ‘the field’. Juliana Mensah is a Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of York.
At #York there is a lively intellectual culture. We partner with the York Festival of Ideas and the York International Shakespeare Festival, and our Writers at York series brings in a stellar cast of world-famous contemporary writers, offering workshops and events through the year.
Reminder that today is the second in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips: "Psychoanalysis As Moral Education". Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst as well as one of the most influential essayists and thinkers writing today.
New open access book publication 🔓 📖
Co-edited by @natashatanna.bsky.social @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social, Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice from @uclpress.bsky.social is grounded in a commitment to politically engaged research that moves beyond traditional scholarly forms
@faberbooks.bsky.social have revealed the cover of the new book from York lecturer @laurenworking.bsky.social.
Rare Book School, which runs world-famous classes on the global history of printing, will be offering two courses here at York in July including “The Rise of Periodical Print Culture, 1700–1830” and “The Culture & Craft of Wood Type.”
At York, we have have one of the largest and most diverse PhD communities in the UK, with over 80 registered research students. Our students undertake wide-ranging research and many of our PhD graduates have transformed their research into monographs. Find out more about our research
Towards a Literary History of Old English Prose with speaker Professor Francis Leneghan. This lecture foregrounds the richness of Old English prose, exploring its role in the emergence of Engla lond as an ‘imagined community’ in the long tenth century. www.york.ac.uk/english/abou...
Irina Tautschnig has been awarded the University of Innsbruck's 2025 annual Literature Prize for her dissertation, 'Moving the Earth in Song. The Reception of Copernicus in Latin and Greek Poems, 1543–1873'. www.york.ac.uk/english/abou...
Warm congratulations to Anthony Capildeo, who has won the Saltire Society Award for Poetry Book of the Year for 'Polkadot Wounds' (Carcanet, 2024). The Saltires are Scotland’s National Book Awards.
Irina Tautschnig, currently Postdoctoral Research Associate working with Kevin Killeen has been awarded the University of Innsbruck's 2025 annual Literature Prize for her dissertation, 'Moving the Earth in Song. The Reception of Copernicus in Latin and Greek Poems, 1543–1873'.
Join us in March for a Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Ned Allen from the University of Cambridge: "Editing and explaining: Dylan Thomas in 2026" on Weds 11 March 2026, 4.30pm buff.ly/jHTe8yt
Psychoanalysis As Moral Education: The second of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst. The Irish novelist John Banville has him as 'one of the finest prose stylists in the language, an Emerson of our time'. Weds 25 Feb, 5pm to 6.30pm
Become an #undergraduate at #York and read a diverse array of texts from across historical periods and around the globe, with options in film, foreign literature, and creative writing.
#OTD in 1694 French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian Voltaire was born in Paris. Voltaire produwrotecing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and even scientific expositions.
We offer an extraordinarily wide range of taught MA programmes, which reflects the Department's research culture as well as the diversity of our staff, postgraduate community and research interests.
#OTD we say #HappyBirthday to #American #novelist Don Delillo, born on this day in 1936 in New York, US. DeLillo's novels have covered consumerism, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, television, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics, and sports.
We welcome applications for research projects across a whole range of literary periods and genres, including world literature, film, literatures in languages other than English, works in translation and creative writing.
#OTD in 1953 #American #poet Tony Hoagland was born in North Carolina, US. His poetry collection, "What Narcissism Means to Me" (2003), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and his poems and work have appeared in American Poetry Review and Harvard Review.
Join us tomorrow for the first in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst. "On Irreverence", Weds 19 November, 5pm to 6.30pm buff.ly/KHjdRBB.
#OTD we say #HappyBirthday to #Canadian #novelist and #poet Margaret Atwood. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale". Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes.
Join us for this Centre for Women's Studies event on Weds 3 December at 5pm: "Legacies of Anti-Fascist Resistance" A book launch and conversation with Claude Cahun translator, Susan Demuth and Dr Boriana Alexandrova.
#OTD in 1916 #American #author Shelby Foote was born in Mississippi, US. Foote primarily viewed himself as a novelist, but is best known for writing "The Civil War: A Narrative", a history of the American Civil War. Foote wrote by hand with a nib pen, later transcribing into type.
#DidYouKnow our #undergraduate module "Villains of Romantic Gothic" challenges traditional distinctions between ‘Romanticism’ and ‘the Gothic’, as well as between ‘male’ and ‘female’ Gothic writing, and covers the work of Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Dacre, and Joanna Baillie.
