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Study Details: MA 12 months full time 24 months part time
Discover the incredible diversity of English literature throughout history and around the globe with this broad and varied Masters degree.
You’ll draw upon our School’s extensive research strengths across literary periods (including Renaissance, Romantic, Victorian, and modern), diverse cultures (including postcolonial and American), and interdisciplinary humanities (such as digital, environmental, and medical).
With access to a rich range of modules, you’ll be able to specialise in your particular field and make unexpected connections between disparate areas, such as Arthurian legend or the Victorian media revolution, Black British writing or the Brontës, psychoanalysis or postcolonialism.
This degree’s flexibility and wealth of module options connects you to internationally-renowned academics with expertise in many areas and specialisms, allowing you to gain a multifaceted perspective on your subject.
You’ll also have the freedom to pursue your personal interests through an independent research project on a topic of your choice. Throughout your studies, you’ll be encouraged to consider overarching issues relating to the study of English literature in all its forms.
The University Library is one of the UK’s major academic research libraries. It has extensive holdings to support your studies, including English Literature Collections that have been designated of national and international importance.
Our Special Collections also offer a huge range of rare books, manuscripts and art, covering topics as varied as poetry, feminism, vernacular culture, and the history of science.
A bachelor degree with a 2:1 (hons) in English literature or a related subject.
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This degree will allow you to develop subject knowledge in a challenging and dynamic subject while building skills that are highly prized by employers.
You’ll be a confident researcher who works well independently, but you’ll also be an excellent communicator and comfortable in a team. You’ll have good analytical and critical skills, as well as having the ability to use different approaches to think about a situation from several different viewpoints.
All of these qualities are attractive to employers across sectors, and you’ll be well equipped to pursue a career in a wide range of fields depending on your interests. Graduates from our English programmes go on to develop careers in a remarkably large range of areas including publishing, broadcasting, teaching, advertising, journalism, and the law. Many of our graduates also choose to progress to PhD-level study.
Year 1 compulsory modules
Writing Places and Identities 30
Research project 30
The Long Poem: Self, Land, Witness 30
Caribbean and Black British Writing 30
Romantic Identities: Literary Constructions of the Self, 1789-1821 30
Africas of the Mind 30
Reading (with) Psychoanalysis 30
Writing, Archives, Race 30
Postcolonialism, Animals and the Environment 30
The Brontes 30
Fictions of Citizenship in Contemporary American Literature 30
Shakespeare’s Tyrants 30
Global Indigeneity 30
Feeling Time 30
The Magic of Mimesis 30
Romantic Ecologies 30
Victorian New Media 30
Writing Identities: Criticism, Creativity, Practice 30
War, Mourning, Memory: 1914-1939 30
Culture and Anarchy: 1945-1968 30
Turks, Moors, and Jews: Race and Identity in English Renaissance Drama 30
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