Welcome to SESLL

Welcome to  the University of Glasgow's School of English and Scottish Language and Literature (SESLL).

The School was formally established in 1996. Its Head is Professor Mike MacMahon (Professor of Phonetics, Department of English Language).

In the two most recent peer reviews of the School's activity, the Teaching Quality Assessment (1997) and the Research Assessment Exercise (2001), the School achieved the highest possible grades: "Excellent" and 5*.

The School is organised into three constituent Departments of English Literature, English Language and Scottish Literature, each with a distinctive research and teaching focus, and includes STELLA our associated computing facility.

The School also hosts the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, and contributes to Glasgow's interdisciplinary Centres for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, American Studies and Scottish and Celtic Studies.

The School has a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes; see the individual departmental pages for details and links.  It also operates joint postgraduate programmes in Creative Writing (MLitt, PhD), and in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for schoolteachers.

Alastair Buchan Prize 2008

The Alastair Buchan Prize is offered annually for the best poem on a prescribed subject and is open to matriculated students who have attended or are attending any class in English Literature, Scottish History or Scottish Literature. The award for 2007-08 is £850.

This year’s subject is ‘Resolving Conflict’ and the deadline for submission of entries is Friday 4th July 2008.  Entries (maximum 50 lines) to be submitted electronically to Professor Michael Schmidt at m.schmidt@englit.arts.gla.ac.uk marked ‘Alastair Buchan Prize Entry’ and with name, department, degree programme and contact details included.

Andrew Tannahill Bursary

Andrew Tannahill Bursaries in Scottish Literature

Bursaries for postgraduate study in the Department of Scottish Literature up to a maximum of £500 for one year are now available. Anyone interested, either intending or ongoing students, should apply with a covering letter and full CV by August 29th 2008 to Dr Gerard Carruthers, Department of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QH.