#DidYouKnow in your first year as an #undergraduate at #York you'll study "Approaches to Literature I: Writing Modernity" which addresses the relationship between modernity, ‘the modern’, and literary culture, from the early 18th century to the 20th tinyurl.com/ysfcu67h

#OnThisDay it is #WorldPostDay2024. To mark the occasion we are celebrating #epistolary form, a hallmark of many successful #novels. Fans of epistolary novels can also check out this reading list curated by the Smithsonian National Postal Museum tinyurl.com/bdhm4s8z

Dr Kenneth Clarke talks about studying and writing about #Dante as a part of an academic course. This film is one of the "Writing About..." series of films by the University of York. youtube.com/watch?v=d24dSN…

In your first year at #York you'll study "A World of Literature I: Classics & Cultural Translations" which explores how classical drama poses ethical questions still relevant today, including Homer’s Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. tinyurl.com/5n8cvr6e

#OnThisDay in 1930 #British #playwright and #screenwriter Harold Pinter was born in Hackney, east London. Pinter's work explored the nature of reality through art. In 2005, Harold Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. tinyurl.com/fzhfvx89

Join us next week for the launch of 'Apennine Crossings: Travellers on the Edge of Tuscany' by Nick Havely. The rich cast features writers from Dante to Goethe, Shelley and Garibaldi, along with travellers from the Middle Ages to the twentieth centuries tinyurl.com/2waa77tf

#DidYouKnow our #postgraduate module "Fictions of Audacity: Middle English Romance" introduces the most audacious and compendious testimony to the imaginary world of the middle ages which comprise more than 100 extant romances, in verse and prose. tinyurl.com/3523u3nj

'The rough kingdom. I’ve been through it. The good sky moved me. I come with it. Here I am now, telling you about it.' from "Circling Dante" (Kimberly Campanello) EVENT: Join us in November for 'Circling Translations' tinyurl.com/4btpe4sd

#DidYouKnow our range of #undergraduate modules includes "Eros: the Literature and Philosophy of Love" which explores how, from Plato to Freud, the creative and yet dangerous possibilities of love have been the spur for understanding the human sciences. tinyurl.com/mtkcmdpd

#OnThisDay we say #HappyBirthday to #Irish writer and #Booker winner Anne Enright. Enright has published eight novels and in 2007 won the Booker Prize for her novel 'The Gathering'. tinyurl.com/bdf3fjeu

Book your tickets for Oksana Maksymchuk's 'Still City: Diary of an Invasion', October 21st 5.15 (5.30 start) at York Dept of English eventbrite.co.uk/e/still-city-a…

#OnThisDay in 1888 #NewZealand #writer Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington. She became an important figure in the #modernist movement and wrote many #shortstories tinyurl.com/4jwa5jkf

Join us on Wednesday for "Rendered Bodies: Film Art and Expanded Organology", which discusses why film artists have turned to the rendered body now, rather than framing figural alternatives such as the incarnate body or the cyborg. tinyurl.com/25dd3z54

In this short film Dr Claire Chambers talks about writing about works by Muslims in the UK and approaches to them as a part of an academic course. youtube.com/watch?v=X6UE41…

Find out more about our current postgraduate researchers in the Dept of #English at #York tinyurl.com/ycydt428 and find out more about the PhD programme here: tinyurl.com/5tuzn5ay

#OnThisDay it is #InternationalDayofRuralWomen2024. To celebrate, here is a reading list curated by Five Books with the The best books on Rural Women in the Developing World tinyurl.com/4bbfytrj

#OnThisDay in 1923 #Italian #writer and #journalist Italo Calvino was born in Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba. Calvino wrote many short stories and the novels "Invisible Cities" (1972) and "If on a winter's night a traveler" (1979). tinyurl.com/mwpxbp2x

#OnThisDay #Irish #poet and #playwright Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin. Wilde was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London and was famously imprisoned between 1895-1897 when he wrote De Profundis tinyurl.com/ycycwnh8

The Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at #York, offers a highly successful #MA in Eighteenth Century Studies comprising a wide choice of #taught and #practical modules, and welcome proposals from students interested in pursuing a #research degree. tinyurl.com/57jfd5sj

#OnThisDay it's #WorldFoodDay2024. To mark the occasion here's a reading list curated by Rabble, exploring books about food, agriculture and communities tinyurl.com/5fbxerw8