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English
The English degree at Oxford is the broadest in the country. You will have the chance to study all periods of English Literature, from 650 AD to the present day, and can choose from a wide range of writers and approaches in line with your own interests. In the main there are no set texts: you will be guided by your tutors and can to an extent create your own pathway through each part of the course.
The Pembroke teaching team is led by our Tutorial Fellows, Professor Lynda Mugglestone (an expert in the history of the spoken language, and metalexicography, and the cultural, social and linguistic history of dictionaries) and Dr Ushashi Dasgupta (whose research interests include nineteenth-century fiction and the relationship between literature, space and architecture).
The Faculty of English website provides details of the joint school courses BA (Hons) English and Modern Languages and BA (Hons) History and English.
Daniel Evans (BA English Language and Literature, 2016) recently completed his final year at Pembroke achieving a first.
During the month of June Pembroke College is running a series of online subject events to help prospective applicants learn more about Pembroke College and the University of Oxford.
Our Open Days in June/ July and September each year provide an opportunity for prospective applicants to talk to staff, tutors and students.
The English course presents a great deal of choice for students to explore periods of literature and topics of particular interest...
A Pembroke student talks about the reasons for applying to Pembroke and the interview process.
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Pembroke English Alumni can be found throughout the world in a variety of careers. Read profiles provided by some of them...
Initiated and organised by our graduate students, Pembroke hosts an annual lecture on Fantasy Literature which is open to all students and is held in honour of former Fellow JRR Tolkien.
Pembroke Fellow Lynda Mugglestone is also Professor of the History of English and an expert on Samuel Johnson.
