About the Department
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Ranked consistently in the top 5 English departments in British Universities (see University Guide 2012)
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An internationally diverse and vibrant cohort of expert staff
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Ranked third in The Guardian's teaching quality table in 2011
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A major base for research into comparative literary studies and offers distinctive and imaginative programmes of study at both undergraduate and postgraduate level
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Scored a 100% at 4* (highest possible) rating for the department's 'Environment and Esteem' in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise
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Established strengths in comparative European literatures, World Literature, medieval and early modern studies, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, Romanticism, literary and cultural theory, literature and religion
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More recent areas of focus include colonial and postcolonial studies, world literature, drama and performance, and contemporary writing
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Home to the Warwick Writing Programme, the largest and most comprehensive of its type in Europe
Contact details:
Reception: Humanities 506
Tel: +44 (0) 24 76 524928