About Literature
Literature at the University of Essex
Literature was one of the founding subjects at Essex and the Department has built its reputation on the scholarly and critical achievements of its teaching staff. Current professors in the Department include Richard Gray, one of world’s foremost authorities on the literature of the United States, Marina Warner, who combines fiction-writing with cultural history, and John Gillies, a leading Shakespearean critic. That range gives just an inkling of the variety of literary traditions and critical approaches that can be studied in the Department through our various degree schemes at both undergraduate and graduate level. These include the BA in English Literature, but also BAs in Comparative Literature, Literature and Myth, and English and US Literature, as well as a wide variety of joint degrees with film, drama, history, philosophy, etc.