The department has an internationally renowned academic team and a strong research ethos.

About us

The department has an internationally renowned academic team and a strong research ethos. We focus on the development of English literature and the functioning of written and spoken English through time and around the world.

Our unique approach to English studies combines the study of language, literature in creative writing into programmes that are highly flexible, imaginatively taught.  

This approach engages our students and helps them succeed: 

  • Our NSS (National Student Survey) score for overall satisfaction has averaged 93% over the past four years 
  • Typically over 90% of our undergraduate students achieve a first class or 2:1 degree 
  • We see high completion rates from our large postgraduate masters and doctoral student community.

English Graduates from the University of Liverpool are highly skilled, imaginative and knowledgeable. They are equipped, as employees and as citizens, to influence thinking around them and to engage in debate about the future.

These are qualities they develop through rigorous academic training and effective and targeted work experience gained with our numerous partners in Liverpool's dynamic arts and culture scene.

If you can't make it to an Open Day or would like to explore our campus before visiting us, take a look at our Virtual Open Day.

English graduate Connor reminisces over his three years at the University of Liverpool.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

P.B. Shelley

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