We are an English Literature department with wide-ranging interests and world-leading archives. We are ranked 11th for Creative Writing in the Complete University Guide 2023 and are in the top 150 worldwide for English Language and Literature (QS World University Rankings by Subject, 2023).
You will become part of a diverse and inclusive community of readers and writers, united in our passion for our subject.
Our curriculum is global, contemporary and comprehensive, and you can study literature from across the world and every period of history, right up to the present.