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English Language and Literature
Online Tasters


Experience what life is like for a student on our English
language and literature
courses.

Meet our staff and students,
get a taste of our courses
and explore our academic expertise.


Watch our 60-second seminars for a quick taste of our courses:


English literature and writing:

17th Century Voyages To Other Worlds

You-niversal Love

Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?

English language and linguistics:

Exploring attitudes towards English accents

Grammars, language change and artificial language

Vague language in use

Watch our other videos for more insight into your course:

Undergraduate Facebook Live

English Literature & English Language courses

English & Writing Open Day presentation

Explore our staff expertise:

Meet our English language and linguistics staff and researchers

Meet our English literature staff and researchers

Articles by Dr Una McCormack, Creative Writing

The Conversation.com

Articles by Professor John Gardner, English Literature

The Conversation.com

Discover what our students love about University life:

Read our student case studies

Find out what they thought of their course.

Kaileb's English Literature blog

Watch our student videos.

Share in their experience of University life.

Ask us your questions about student life.  Email [email protected], use the 'Chat' option on our course pages or attend one of our Open Days.