Draft:Department of English, University of Southampton
Submission declined on 7 May 2025 by DoubleGrazing (talk).
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Comment: While universities by and large are notable, component units thereof (faculties, departments, schools, institutes, etc.) by and large aren't. DoubleGrazing (talk) 18:53, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
The Department of English is an academic division in the School of Humanities within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Southampton.
History
[edit]Among the department's earliest heads of department was the poet and academic F. T. Prince, whose work was championed by T. S. Eliot, appointed Professor of English in 1957.[1] The department host the annual F. T. Prince Memorial Lecture in his honour. During the 1970s and 1980s, the department helped pioneer the reshaping of the discipline of English Literature around literary theory and deconstruction[2]: "I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that literary criticism in the United Kingdom went through a seismic shift in the 1980s that was in part the result of what happened in that particular place."[3]
Rankings
[edit]The department is ranked 9th in the UK by The Times.[4] It is ranked 6th in the UK for research quality by The Complete University Guide and 20th overall.[5]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Professor F. T. Prince, The Independent, 8 August 2003". The Independent.
- ^ Attridge, Derek (2010). Reading and Responsibility: Deconstruction's Traces. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-4008-9.
- ^ Attridge, Derek (2010). Reading and Responsibility: Deconstruction's Traces. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-4008-9.
- ^ "UK university league table 2025". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
- ^ "English Subject League Table 2025". www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
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