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Department of English and Related Literature

RAE RAE 20082008

Times League Table

League Table Movements: 2009 - 2010

20092009 2010 2010

The TimesThe Times 8 8 5 5

The GuardianThe Guardian 13 13 10 10

The Independent The Independent 66 4 4

External Examiners’ Comments

“Students' work is truly outstanding... revealing a research culture without parallel in the UK ...They are thriving in a rich research environment … They are clearly outstanding students, some of the best in the country, working at levels which outstrip all of the institutions I have knowledge of in terms of skills, understanding and historical/cultural acumen.”

“York’s students are exceptionally able and demonstrate very high standards of intellectual attainment ... The best students are simply outstanding, and all students show an excellent level of analytical ability ... Overall, York’s students in English are surely among the best trained in the country.”

“The standard of teaching in English at York is very high indeed, encouraging the students to formulate their own questions and approach their material in bold and innovative ways, while still paying attention to close textual analysis, scholarly rigour and presentational and research skills.”

Distinctive Features

Ethos

From the six-yearly Periodic Review, (2009):

A particular strength of the department is “the adoption of a model of teaching in the context of research, which was intellectually rigorous and enabled students to share the experience of academic staff in exploring intellectual challenges and developing skills of inquiry and independent learning. The panel felt that this model was distinctive, not only within the University, but also within the UK sector and potentially beyond.”

Distinctive Features

Historical Range

The four Research Schools:

Medieval…

(CMS)

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Historical Range

The four Research Schools:

Renaissance…

(CREMS)

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Historical Range

The four Research Schools:

Eighteenth Century…

(CECS)

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Historical Range

The four Research Schools:

Modern…

(CModS)

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Historical Range

Cross-period …

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Relatedness:

Interdisciplinarity …

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European Literatures …

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World Literatures …

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New Media …

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New Media …

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New Media …

Period, Special and Foreign Literature Modules

Period Modules: High Medieval literature; Late Medieval Literature; The Early Renaissance; The Later Renaissance and Restoration; The Eighteenth Century and Early Romantic Period, 1700-1807; The Romantic Period, 1776-1832; American Literature to 1910; American Literature, 1910 to the Present; British and Irish Literature, 1910 to the Present. Special modules: A Girl and a Gun: Post-War European Cinema; American Independent Film: From Orson Welles to David Lynch; Samuel Beckett & the European Avant-Garde; Britain’s Cultural Cringe: Inventing English Literature 1700-1800; Britons at Work: Gender, Class and Victorian Culture; Chaucer and Chaucerians; The Culture Business; Dante in English; Charles Dickens; Early Film 1896 to 1917: The Birth of the Movies; Elizabethan Love Poetry; Empire and British Identities 1770-1850; Gender and Identity from John Locke to Jane Austen; The History and Theory of Criticism; Homer; Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature; Letters and Literary Form; The Lives of Stories: Myths, Fairytales & Repeating Narratives in Film & Literature; Measured Laughter: Satire, Parody and Play; Middle English Romance and Popular Fiction (John Wayne and Gawain); Milton and Radical England; Modern British and Irish Theatre 1945-2006; Modern Irish Poetry; Performing Ancient Drama; Philosophy of Literature; Politics and the Novel; Post-Colonial Writing: Literature and Resistance; Shakespeare: Text, Stage and Screen; 21st Century American Fiction: Postmodern and Beyond; Texts and Histories; Women and Words in Early Modern England; Writing Eighteenth-Century London. Foreign Literature modules: Anglo-Saxon Literature; Old Norse; Rhetoric in Latin; Camus; Realism; Symbolism; Goethe; The Poetry and Drama of García Lorca; Dante’s Inferno; Modern Italian Narrative…

Student Numbers

UG

543 (32 Overseas)

PGT

81 (16 Overseas)

PGR

66 (21 Overseas)

Taught MA Programmes

Cultures of Empire

18th Century StudiesRepresentations and ContextsThe Global 18th CenturyRomantic and Sentimental Literature

English Literary Studies

Film and Literature

MedievalMedieval StudiesMedieval English Literatures

Modern and Contemporary

Renaissance Renaissance and Early Modern StudiesRenaissance Literature

Funded Research

Current Projects (2008/2009)

Research Councils

Identification of Medieval Scribes £623,141 (AHRC)

English Urban Manuscripts £120,129 (AHRC)

Vikings and Victorian Lakeland: Norse Medievalism £20,380 (AHRC)

Multilingualism in Medieval England and Europe £20, 018 (AHRC)

Crossing Conquests: 11th Century Literary Culture £12,164 (AHRC)

Cambridge History of South African Literature £7,500 (British Academy)

Funded Research

Current Projects (2008/2009)

Charities

Letters of TS Eliot £217, 303 (Eliot Trust)

Poetic Comedies £70,000 (Leverhulme Trust)

Secretaries in the Modern Imagination £32,500 (Leverhulme Trust)

The Other Flaubert £27, 861 (Leverhulme Trust)

Funded Research

Awards to date, 2008-2012

Research Councils £622,213

Charities £405,424

Total £1,027,637

Annual Research Income

2007/8 £218,015

2009/10 (forecast) £245,000

Successful Alumni

Successful Alumni