Department of English Literature

Explore the pleasures of reading and studying literature in a community of outstanding scholars and students. Our research and teaching spans the full range of literature from Old English to digital culture, and incorporates traditional and non-traditional areas of study.

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14 November 2023

Downton Abbey producer appointed Honorary Professor

Alumnus Gareth Neame OBE joins the University of Birmingham, as we expand our creative industries focus.

02 November 2023

Actor Paterson Joseph gives University of Birmingham a memorable show

Paterson Joseph performed 'Sancho and me', based on his novel documenting the life of the first man of African Heritage to vote in Britain.

11 September 2023

A Tolkien Weekend in Bewdley: Glimpses of Other Worlds

The renowned fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien died fifty years ago on 2 September 1973. Tolkien described Worcestershire as ‘in an indefinable way “home" to me.'

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