Welcome to the School Of English
Ranked 5th in Europe and 32nd in the World
Welcome to the School of English, Trinity College which is part of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. The School is one of the oldest in Britain or Ireland and in 1867 founded the first ever Chair in English Literature. On this website you will find details of courses for undergraduate, post-graduate, research and visiting students by clicking on the relevant links plus contact details of staff, their research and publications, the Oscar Wilde Centre, School Handbooks and much more information. You can now join us on Facebook .
News & Events
- A two-day symposium on "The Idea of a University in the 21st Century" will take place in the Long Room Hub from February 10th-11th, 2012. Click here for more details, including the schedule.
- A new essay collection entitled It Came From the 1950s! Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties and edited by school of English staff is now available.
- School of English graduate student John Curran's Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making (2011) has been nominated for the 2012 Edgar non-fiction award. His bestselling Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks (2010) won the prestigious Anthony, Macavity, and Agatha awards, as well as having been shortlisted for the 2011 Edgar.
- The School of English has done exceptionally well in the QS World University Rankings for Arts & Humanities. We have been ranked 32nd in the world and 5th in Europe, and are the only Irish institution to be placed in the top 50 worldwide. Click here for more details.
- The Bram Stoker Centenary Conference will be held in TCD from 4th-6th July 2012. For further details please click here.
- Tolkien: The Forest and the City Conference, TCD September 21-22, 2012. Click here for details. For information contact: Dr. H. Conrad-O'Briain
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