Ali Smith (CBE) Author, playwright, academic and journalist, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. English Literature Graduate “Studying for an English degree is one of the best ways…
James Walsh “Studying English is an exploration into the minds and lives of a diverse range of characters. Literature is the greatest of artistic forms because it is capable of…
Madelyn Walsh English Graduate and Assistant Curator at the International Slavery Museum, Liverpool “Studying English Literature has been an enriching experience and opened doors I never expected. Initially, the key…
Melanie Taylor English literature A level, BA and MA graduate and PhD candidate with Open University. “Throughout my career I found that my skills in English were invaluable in…
Michael Rosen Author English Literature Graduate “Literature has been my life. I studied it through the 50s and 60s and then picked it up again in the 90s with postgraduate…
Joe Ward Munrow Playwright and a part-time lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. “Creative writing, in particular scriptwriting, has opened up worlds that I didn’t previously know…
Alice Burns PhD candidate, University of Liverpool. “English – as a discipline – forces us to articulate ourselves, our thoughts, and synthesise the world around us more powerfully, more succinctly.…
Alex Round English literature and language teacher and AHRC funded PhD candidate in English Literature and Art History at BCU. “I have always had a passion and enthusiasm for English,…
Zhiming Yang PhD student at the University of Liverpool. “From the perspective of both an English language learner and speaker, studying English means having another means to explore the richness…
Grace Kempster, OBE. PhD at the Open University, public libraries manager, judge for the Women’s Prize in Literature and the Orange Prize in Literature. Studying English Black marks on white cast…