Events & Conferences
Tuesday 1 December 2009
- Taming the Wild Profusion of Things: Some Thoughts on the Possibility of Metaphysics 6:15pm to 7:15pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Donnchadh O’Conaill (Durham University)
Wednesday 2 December 2009
- Bowen's Telephones 4:30pm to 7:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Professor Andrew Bennett (University of Bristol)
Monday 7 December 2009
- Venice and Opera 6:15pm to 7:15pm , Elvet Riverside 2, New Elvet, Room 201 , Professor Jeremy Dibble (Durham University)
Welcome
English Studies at Durham University is one of the top English Departments in the country, offering teaching and research of the highest quality in beautiful surroundings. For the third year running, the Durham has topped the league tables for English (The Good University Guide 2009), receiving the highest score for student satisfaction in any UK English Department. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, 90% of the research activity in the Department was judged to be of international standing.
We offer a range of teaching across the whole of the discipline, from Anglo-Saxon literature to the present day, offering both a solid base for the study of English Literature and the opportunity to specialise. Our teaching draws on a variety of different theoretical and methodological perspectives: we encourage students to discover new approaches and to develop their own responses. Students are taught in lectures, seminars, tutorial groups and also one-to-one supervisions, by some of the world's leading literary critics.
The Department's ethos is that teaching and research should complement one another at all levels of academic enquiry, from first-year tutorials to the specialised supervision available to MA and doctoral postgraduates. Our work combines a strong sense of tradition with a commitment to innovation and new approaches, and we have a particular strength in interdisciplinary research.