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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.

New Collaborative Project: Re-authoring Meat Consumption Narratives

This new midsize project is a collaboration between researchers from the Humanities, Social and Behavioural, and Medical faculties, including the English Department’s Dr Emelia Quinn. It harnesses diverse areas of ...
New book by Ben Moore – Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850-1895

Taking up debates around the place of the human in Victorian literature, in light of contemporary discussions about the Anthropocene, this new book argues for ‘human tissue’ as a conceptual tool for reading that ...
World premiere of theatre classics thanks to collaboration UvA and Princeton

Two famous 17th century plays will soon be performed together for the first time in history; one in Dutch and one in English. The unique production The Miller + The King, which will take place in CC Amstel on 16 ...
New book by Kristine Johanson - Shakespeare’s Golden Ages: Resisting Nostalgia in Elizabethan Drama

Diverging from critical paths that have focused on nostalgia as a memorializing practice or on Stuart nostalgia for Elizabeth, this book argues that Shakespeare’s Elizabethan history plays stage nostalgia as a ...

42nd in the world and top-ranked in the Netherlands

The QS World University Rankings for English Language and Literature 2023 places the UvA English Department 42nd 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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New Collaborative Project: Re-authoring Meat Consumption Narratives

New book by Ben Moore – Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850-1895

World premiere of theatre classics thanks to collaboration UvA and Princeton

New book by Kristine Johanson - Shakespeare’s Golden Ages: Resisting Nostalgia in Elizabethan Drama

Guest Lecture Series 2022-2023

42nd in the world and top-ranked in the Netherlands

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Guest Lecture Series 2022-2023

42nd in the world and top-ranked in the Netherlands

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