Activities and Events
If you study with us at Exeter you’ll be invited to attend of a rich programme of events and activities alongside your studies. The Department of English and Film hosts an exciting range of visiting speakers and events across the academic year.
Some recent visitors include the UK’s foremost film critic Mark Kermode, who dropped by campus in December to give a masterclass and Q&A on film journalism for our students.
We are international
Are you thinking of coming to study English with us at Exeter from outside the UK? International students give their take below on what it’s like to study with us, and how they’ve made Exeter a home away from home:
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Research bites: literature of the long 18th century
‘We have extraordinary students, and exceptionally interesting colleagues, and their ideas, their enthusiasm informs my work and enriches it.’
Hear Dr Daisy Hay‘s thoughts about passion, life writing and archives in her research and teaching on the literature of the long eighteenth century.
Here’s Daisy’s book Young Romantics, and a Guardian review of her most recent, Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance – winner of a Somerset Maugham Award in 2016.
You can study with Daisy on her specialist option: EAS3178 Life Writing: History, Form, Practice.
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We are Researchers
You will be taught by active researcher and leaders in their respective fields when you come to study at Exeter. We are passionate about bringing you into the latest debates and ideas across the spectrum of literary studies, including creative writing and film.
Here are just a few of the faces you will encounter across your degree. Click on a profile to find out more.
Teaching bites: Imperial Encounters
Take a trip into the archive and explore the workings of Victorian adventure stories!
Dr Paul Young, Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature & Cultures, gives you a taster of what you might study on the level 3 specialist option Imperial Encounters: Victorians and their World.
Take a look at the video below for a flavour of the kinds of texts and artefacts that will form a key part of your study in all things Victorian here at Exeter.
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