I wanted to be able to choose my own areas of study, and with my modules I am able to focus on my areas of interest, supported by a huge body of staff.
Rebecca Chaddock, Literature and History
UEA has a wonderfully buzzy atmosphere... The square, with its confusion of music, drinking and chatting, is surrounded by beautiful natural scenery... It offers the ideal fusion of urban student life and a stunning rural situation: the perfect combination.
Holly O'Mahony, English Literature
Beginning something as important as university, it's easy to feel intimidated or overwhelmed. I can't think of a single form of help that the university didn't make available to me. It felt like everyone was there to get me on my feet.
Tim Bates, English Literature

Literature at UEA is not a complete, finished object of study, but a living practice. Because we also do creative writing, translation and drama, we are aware that imaginative writing is not fixed; it is constantly being transformed, adapted, rewritten and reread. Students are invited to study these processes, and also to be part of them.

Among a diverse group of about twenty literature lecturers, there are experts on the various roles that the practice of literature can play, and has played, in society — how it can be something like praying, or like journalism, or like conversation, how it can be a form of political action, or a vehicle for ideas, or a working out of unmanageable experience, or a way of negotiating (or inflaming) differences of class and race and gender. We teach literature not in isolation, but in relation to this untidy bundle of social and psychological purposes.

It follows that we have no great respect for the boundaries that divide one academic discipline from another. We take a lively interest in the work of our colleagues in history, philosophy, film, the visual arts and music, and we encourage our students to do the same. That is why we offer a range of degree programmes which combine literature with other, related subjects. Our largest programme is the BA in English Literature (Q300): this is a single subject degree, but we work to keep it open and responsive to its multi-disciplinary surroundings.