School of English

You will be taught by leading international researchers and award-winning creative writers in a location steeped in literary history.

Our programmes – English and American Literature, Creative Writing, Contemporary Literature and Postcolonial Literature – cover all periods from Chaucer to the Contemporary and at every step of the way students choose their own pathway through the subject.

All our undergraduate degrees are available with a year abroad or a year in industry and our postgraduate programmes are taught at centres in Paris and London as well as in Canterbury.

Research Centres:

• Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
• Centre for Creative Writing
• Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing
• Centre for Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Centre for Modern Poetry
• Centre for Victorian Literature and Culture
• Centre for American Studies
• Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

91% of Kent English students that graduated in 2013 found employment or went onto further study within 6 months of graduating. Our degree provides students with a range of highly developed transferrable skills which enables our students to go into a variety of careers.