Undergraduates

The Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies is one of the largest at Warwick. There are around 40 members of staff and an undergraduate intake for the main degrees of 130 students in each year. In addition there are about 100 students per year taking joint degrees with other departments and 100 Graduate students.

The Department was founded in 1965 and is highly successful in research and teaching. Much of its work is interdisciplinary, with substantial strengths in the literary and cultural history of the Early Modern, Eighteenth-century, Romantic, Victorian and Modern periods; in work on gender and sexuality; and in various forms of cultural production, where interests both reflect the interdisciplinary character of the Faculty and respond to the general widening of literary studies so as to include contiguous fields such as film, journalism, popular culture and performance. This is the form in which the founding principle of comparativism continues to flourish, as does a tradition of close collaboration with a number of research centres and active interdisciplinary research groups within the university.

The Department was recently ranked 4th in the Guardian League Tables.

English can be studied on the following degree progammes at Warwick:

For more information on these degree programmes, please click here.