One of the highest-ranking English departments in the UK, UCL English provides excellent opportunities for PhD students to study in the heart of literary London, with access to vast quantities of resources and research materials, and a high number of academic staff working on a diverse range of specialist research topics. The department has specialists in every period of English and American literature, as well as English language, and offers a full programme of research colloquia – at which papers are given by invited speakers and graduate students themselves – research methods seminars, and career development workshops. Students from the department have participated as visiting scholars at Yale as part of the UCL-Yale Collaborative Partnership. Students have automatic access to an incomparable range of archives and libraries, including Senate House Library and the British Library, both of which are nearby. Research course may also offered on a four-year full-time basis.