English Department

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English Department

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The Department of English and Related Literature is one of the top five English Departments in the country, according to the Times Good University Guide. It achieved the highest possible ranking in the last Research Assessment Exercise, 5*A - later upgraded to 6*.

It has three interdisciplinary research centres: Centre for Medieval Studies Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies

1 Teaching and assessment
2 Postgraduates
3 Staff
4 Contact Details
5 External Links

[edit] Teaching and assessment

The Department specialises in small group teaching. Every undergraduate module, from first year to third, has as its focus a small seminar group meeting once or twice a week. Seminars are complemented by tutorials, which are normally on a one-to-one basis. The emphasis in assessment is on essays written in the student's own time rather than closed examinations.

A unique feature of the department's teaching and research is the study of literature in a number of other languages; these include French, German, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Old Norse, and Anglo-Saxon. The Department has a special interest in colonial and postcolonial literature, including Irish, African, Caribbean, and Latin American. Film is studied as an integral element in the undergraduate course, with opportunities to specialise at the final level.

[edit] Postgraduates

A high proportion of York graduate students go on to do MPhil/PhD research in the Department. Many are successful in attracting AHRC funding for professional research.

The Department has an exceptionally large and lively graduate community, with about 130 students studying for MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees. Students come from many countries around the world. See http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/engl/gsp/graduate_study_info.htm for more information.

[edit] Staff

Head of Department: Derek Attridge
Deputy Head of Department: Richard Walsh
Graduate Chair: David Attwell
Admissions Tutor: Judith Woolf

With forty members of staff, the Department is one of the largest and most active English departments in the UK. Among the staff are a number from other countries, contributing to the international quality of the Department. Nine faculty members are from the USA, and other countries represented are Canada, Italy, Australia, Ireland and South Africa. Read more information about the staff and their recent and forthcoming publications at http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/engl/staff/academic/biograph.htm/.

A number of prominent journals and book series have editors in the Department, including Studies in the Early Middle Ages, Shakespeare Quarterly, the World's Classics English Drama Series, and the leading journal of modernist studies, Modernism/Modernity.