English Literature BA (Hons)
Studying English Literature at York St John University is about
more than the study of great books. You will study great books, but
you can also take modules in exciting areas such as children’s
literature, creative writing, or horror fiction. What we try and
encourage is the pleasure of reading and how to form critical
responses to those pleasures. We want students to be informed,
engaged and arguments to be substantiated and who have the ability
to make a creative response.
You can study our English Literature programme as a Specialist
degree and as part of a Joint Honours
degree
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Staff research and expertise informs many of our
modules from American literature to science fiction. Tutors have
published on contemporary fiction, women’s writing and modern
poetry. Research interests include Shakespeare and the
Renaissance, the Gothic and our published creative writers
are respectively, a novelist and a poet.
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The student experience is enhanced by the
provision of opportunities to see and hear visiting writers. There
is also a Writer in Residence in addition to the English Literature
team themselves. Theatre visits form an integral part of modules
such as The Study of Shakespeare, and there are visits to sites of
literary and cultural significance such as Haworth or Shandy
Hall.
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We have developed working relationships with
others, locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. This
has allowed us to offer work placements at all these levels in
publishing for example. Our contacts with academic colleagues
overseas allow us to offer students a range
of opportunities to study including Oslo, Bergen,
Tarragona and New York state.
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