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 Nigel Leask, FEA, FRSE (Regius Professor of English Language and Literature in the Department of English Literature).

The School of English and Scottish Language and Literature is delighted with our excellent results in RAE 2008.  Not only did we return the largest number of active researchers in Scotland -- we submitted all our staff -- and the third largest in the UK, but 70% of our research was rated as either "world-leading" (35%) or"internationally excellent" (35%).  Using various measures of research achievement, we are ranked between third and eighth in the UK.  This result demonstrates our status as a major institution for the study of English and Scottish language and literature, and builds on our achievement of a 5*-rating in RAE 2001.

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 Centre for Robert Burns Studies, 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.