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English at the University of Amsterdam combines literature and culture from the entire English-speaking world with English Linguistics - the language as it was spoken in the past and today.

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17 March 2020

On the 8th of March, the English Department celebrated one of the great English poets with its fifth annual Miltonathon. Introduced to the UvA by Dr Kristine Johanson, the event is an all-day reading of John Milton’s ...

23 January 2020

While preparing a BA elective on Romantic poetry, English faculty member Rudolph Glitz came across, and became curious about 'Serenade', an early nineteenth-century poem by Ludwig Rellstab that was set to music by ...

21 November 2019

Prof. Bertus van Rooy (1972) has been appointed professor of English Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

43rd in the world and top-ranked in the Netherlands

The QS World University Rankings for English Language and Literature 2020 places the UvA English Department 43rd in the world. This puts the UvA ahead of many prestigious and well-respected institutions in English-speaking countries, and makes it the top-ranked university in the Netherlands for English Language and Literature.

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