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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.”
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…
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