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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

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Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · Jun 10

Absolutely thrilled that English and Related Literature at York has been ranked 6th in the Complete University Guide for 2026. The ranking speaks to the strength and depth of our vibrant, diverse and inclusive curriculum, our research expertise and ambition and our wonderful community of students.

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 11h

#OTD in 1844 #German #philosopher and #writer Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Röcken. He began his career as a classical philologist, and in 1869, aged 24, Nietzsche became the youngest professor to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel.

Friedrich Nietzsche | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. His attempts to unmask the motives that underlie…

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 15h

Modern School Seminar with speaker Dr Maya Caspari. What does it mean to write ethically about historical violence? This paper discusses recent work focusing particularly on poet Claudia Rankine and her engagement with the afterlife of slavery. Weds 22 Oct, 1pm to 3pm. buff.ly/mupnK74

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 1d

#OTD in 1888 New Zealand #poet Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington. She was an important figure in the modernist movement and explored anxiety, sexuality, Christianity, and existentialism. Her works are celebrated across the world and have been published in 25 languages

Katherine Mansfield

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 1d

York is an international leader in the study of the literature, culture and history in the 18th century, with expertise in themes such as fashion and material culture, empire and Orientalism, the Atlantic world, radical print culture, periodicals and science and medicine.

Eighteenth Century and Romantics

York is an international leader in the study of the literature, culture and history from the late 17th century to the early 19th century.

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 2d

#OTD in 1902 #American #poet Arna Bontemps was born in Louisiana, US. Bontemps published fiction as well as poetry. He received a considerable amount of attention for his first novel, "God Sends Sunday" which explored the story of an African-American jockey named Little Augie.

Arna Bontemps | Harlem Renaissance, Poetry, Novels | Britannica

Arna Bontemps was an American writer who depicted the lives and struggles of black Americans. After graduating from Pacific Union College, Angwin, California, in 1923, Bontemps taught in New York and…

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 2d

Published in 1925, Mrs Dalloway celebrates its centenary this year. A modernist masterpiece, the novel follows characters over the course of a day, weaving a narrative from threads of thought and feeling, and a one-day symposium on the novel takes place at St Andrews on 31st October.

‘Very Young; at the Same Time Unspeakably Aged’: 100 Years of Mrs Dalloway

‘Very Young; at the Same Time Unspeakably Aged’: 100 Years of Mrs Dalloway

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 5d

#DidYouKnow our 3rd year #undergraduate module "21st-century American fiction" imagines and interrogates the changing social and cultural landscape in which US writers write and examines the relations between new fiction and transformations in US economics, politics, and media.

21st Century American Fiction (ENG00048H) 2025-26 - Module Catalogue, Student home, University of York

Changing lives for the better through academic excellence and bold, creative thinking.

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 5d

#OTD in 1930 #British #playwright Harold Pinter was born in London. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a career spanning more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957) and Betrayal (1978).

www.haroldpinter.org - Home

The Official Harold Pinter Website

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations to former English PhD student, Sharon Choe, who has her first novel coming out next year. Publisher's Weekly has announced that Atheneum Publishers have acquired the Young Adult debut novel by Sharon Choe, "The Queen of the Spirit Woods", and a sequel.

Former English PhD student has first novel accepted for publication

Congratulations to former English PhD student, Sharon Choe, who has her first novel coming out next year.

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 6d

#OTD in 1964 #Mexican #writer and #filmmaker Guillermo del Toro was born in Guadalajara. His work is characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales, gothicism and horror, infusing visual or poetic beauty in the grotesque. He considers monsters to be symbols of great power

Guillermo del Toro | Biography, Films, Awards, & Facts | Britannica

Guillermo del Toro, Mexican director, screenwriter, and producer who was known for imbuing horror and fantasy films with emotional and thematic complexity. His best-known films included Hellboy,…

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 7d

#OTD in 1872 #English #novelist John Cowper Powys was born in Shirley, Derbyshire. Powys has been seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy. As with Hardy, landscape is important to his works as is elemental philosophy in his characters' lives.

John Cowper Powys | Romantic Novelist, Philosopher, Poet | Britannica

John Cowper Powys was a Welsh novelist, essayist, and poet, known chiefly for his long panoramic novels, including Wolf Solent (1929), A Glastonbury Romance (1932), and Owen Glendower (1940). He was…

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 7d

Medieval Literatures Seminar with speaker Professor Kenneth Clarke (York): this seminar will look at a number of interpolations in Dante’s Commedia, focusing on how early readers became actively engaged in the vivid afterlife represented in the Commedia. 18 November.

Interpolation and/as Interpretation in Dante’s 'Commedia'

Medieval Literatures Seminar with speaker Professor Kenneth Clarke (York).

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 8d

#OTD in 1939 #Australian #writer and #broadcaster Clive James was born in Kogarah, New South Wales. James began his career as a literary critic before earning an independent reputation as a poet and satirist He achieved success as a writer for TV, and led his own programmes.

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Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 8d

Join us for A conversation with Jack Mackay on Monday 13th October. A recent graduate from the Department of English and Related Literature, Jack Mackay (2021-2024) has published his debut novel Gloam, a Gothic horror fiction aimed at the middle grade market, to enormous acclaim.

A conversation with Jack Mackay

Department of English graduate Jack Mackay returns to York to discuss his acclaimed Gothic debut 'Gloam', share writing insights, and inspire aspiring authors.

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 9d

#OTD in 1895 #American #novelist and literary #critic Caroline Gordon was born in Kentucky, US. While still in her thirties, Gordon received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1932 and an O. Henry Award in 1934, and had connections to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and T. S. Eliot.

Caroline Gordon | Research Starters | EBSCO Research

<p>Caroline Gordon was an influential American novelist and short-story writer, recognized for her contributions to literature in the 20th century. Born in Kentucky in 1895, she was educated in a…

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University of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social · 12d

The Morrell Library is 59 years old today!

Join us on a brief pictorial trip back in time with his much loved* brutalist building, starting with this cracking picture of the mid-60s campus, with the Morrell behind Central Hall.

Look at those crisp architectural lines. Woof.

Next up: plans >> 🧵

Black & white image showing the lake (very still), Central Hall looking alien, Vanbrugh College and behind that a very white and clean Morrell Library

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 9d

Join us tomorrow at 5pm for a CECS Research Seminar with speaker Professor Mary Fairclough (York). This event explores Mary Wollstonecraft’s use of the rhetorical figure of apostrophe, in particular her deployment of apostrophe as part of rhetorical armoury. buff.ly/AbIbbs1

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 12d

Autumn skies outside = the perfect time to read 2nd-year @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social student Eva Newell's blog post on cinnamon 🍁 What does Hailey Beiber's cinnamon girl make-up trend have to do with Voltaire's El Dorado? blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo... @laurenworking.bsky.social #StudentSalon

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 12d

York’s English degree is renowned for its #flexible and #innovative approach. You’ll work closely with tutors in small-group #seminars, supported by #lectures and #workshops, and opportunities to #consult staff on a one-to-one basis in their weekly office hours. Find out more

BA (Hons) English

Discover a world of literature at York.

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 12d

#OTD in 1916 #British #vet and #writer James Herriot was born in Sunderland. Herriot practised as a veterinary surgeon in Yorkshire for almost 50 years, and is known for writing a series of eight books set in the 1930s–1950s Yorkshire Dales about veterinary practice.

James Herriot Biography | Real Life of All Creatures Great & Small Author

Discover the real James Herriot (Alf Wight), beloved Yorkshire vet and author of All Creatures Great & Small. Visit his original home and surgery in Thirsk.

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 13d

#OTD in 1879 #American #poet Wallace Stevens was born in Pennsylvania, US. Stevens's first period begins with the publication of Harmonium (1923), and his Collected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955.

Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1879. He attended Harvard University as an undergraduate from 1897 to 1900. He planned to travel to Paris and work as a writer, but,…

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 14d

Editor, translator, medievalist – and prestigious Irish poet – Bernard O’Donoghue will be talking about his new book "The Poems of Seamus Heaney" in conversation with York’s own Hugh Haughton. There will be an opportunity to ask Professor O’Donoghue about the book. 12 November.

Bernard O’Donoghue: Editing Heaney

Join us for this Writers at York event with editor, translator, medievalist, and prestigious Irish poet, Bernard O'Donoghue.

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 14d

#OTD in 1885 #American #poet Louis Untermeyer was born in New York, US. Untermeyer was known for his wit and his love of puns. He was appointed the fourteenth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1961 buff.ly/1lGtupJ

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 15d

#OTD it is #InternationalTranslationDay! Tell us what your favourite literary translations is in the comments.

The 20 must-read classics in translation

From Arabic masterpieces to Japanese novellas, these books will transport you to places – and eras – you've never been to before. How many have you read?

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 15d

A recent graduate from the Department of English and Related Literature, Jack Mackay (2021-2024) has published his debut novel Gloam, a Gothic horror fiction aimed at the middle grade market, to enormous acclaim.

A conversation with Jack Mackay

Department of English graduate Jack Mackay returns to York to discuss his acclaimed Gothic debut 'Gloam', share writing insights, and inspire aspiring authors.