The lectures in these two departments, which form one department at the graduate school level, aim at covering more or less all the periods and genres of the literature of the English language, while some of them are devoted to the study of the language itself. The lectures are conducted by six full-time professors, and about a dozen part-time lecturers. The departments also receive the collaboration of visiting lecturers from Britain and the United States.

The graduates of the departments have organized the Kyodai Eibungakkai (The English Literary Society, Kyoto University), which annually publishes Albion, a bulletin in Japanese and English, and holds a general meeting at which papers are read by members.

• English/American Language and Literature Web Site (in Japanese)