1.   He is now chair of the English department.

2.   She started flicking through the messages, most of them in the handwriting of Mrs Whittaker, the secretary of the English department.

3.   She had agreed to have a drink with the deputy head of the English department after work, which gave her a bit of time.

4.   She arrived in central London so late that she had to park in the street outside the English department, with not a free parking meter in sight.

5.   There are two professors in the English department where I work, and in the last twelve months, one of them has got very keen on structuralism.

6.   English department did it last term.

7.   Er er, the English department.

8.   And the most arresting part of the career section is a homage to D.J. Gordon, the eccentric chairman of the English department at Reading University.

9.   And two weeks ago, Ricks resigned from the English department at Boston University for reasons he refuses to discuss publicly.

10.   At that time, he was planning to return to the English department in January after a three-year tour of duty in the Core Curriculum.