Research in the Department of English brings the core values of our discipline-textual scholarship, critical and theoretical analysis, and contextual knowledge, to the dynamic and changing field of ...

Prof. Seth Lerer, literature, University of California, San Diego explored the changing nature of medieval and early modern traditions in English lyrics at a lecture Thursday. Lerer introduced ...

The earliest vernacular literatures of medieval Western Europe were produced in Britain and Ireland in Old English, Gaelic, and Brittonic languages. Our Anglophone world privileges Old English ...

General introduction to major themes in the cultural, intellectual, and institutional history of China and Japan, with some attention to Korea and Southeast Asia. Two lectures, one preceptorial. This ...

Dr. Geraldine Parsons, Senior Lecturer in Celtic and Gaelic and Head of Subject at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, lectures on "The Quiet Girls of Early Ireland: Women in Medieval Irish ...

The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...

Laura Ashe is a British historian of English medieval literature, history and culture (c. 1000–1550). She lectures in English and is a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. Ashe was educated at Leeds ...

It's very likely you've heard of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table – but how many other medieval English heroic or chivalric stories could you name? If the answer is none, you've now got ...