Undergraduate English Literature
English Literature at Newcastle is grounded in the research expertise of our staff, the quality of our degrees, and the excellence of our students.
Studying English Literature
We are a World Top 100 School for Literature and Language (QS World Rankings, 2025) and you will thrive in our friendly and dynamic community. Here staff and students work together to study ideas, texts and projects that are powerful and culturally important. Our undergraduate English Literature degrees include a wide range of options and extensive historical coverage. There are opportunities to:
- study and specialise in the areas of literature of greatest interest to you;
- explore the depth and breadth of literature written in English;
- practise creative writing, script-writing and film-making;
- work as an editor on our student-led UG journal;
- gain a workplace mentor or work with local schoolchildren.
Our aim is to deepen your knowledge of literary texts, give you a firm foundation in the critical and theoretical skills needed to analyse them, and share with you the social, intellectual and cultural opportunities of university life.
We offer single honours degrees in:
We offer joint honours degrees in:
Research in English Literature
In our teaching and research, we address a range of historical moments and geographies, from Medieval to contemporary literature, postcolonial and Black Atlantic literatures. To discover the full range of research specialisms, head over to our Literature research page.
