If you live for literature and culture and want to deepen your understanding of the complex and often disturbing forces that shape our world, then our MA will be ideal for you.
Study on our MA will lead you to new levels of emotional and intellectual engagement and will lay the foundations for you to produce exciting written work that deserves to be published and read; you will be inspired to think in new, innovative, and challenging ways.
Our teaching team engages intensely with the real-world issues that shape and govern our world in the 2020s – the debates and conflicts about gender, sexuality, race, class, justice, technology and the environment – and they ground their knowledge and learning in rigorous readings of literary and cultural texts.
To join this MA you should have a second class honours degree in English or an arts degree, 2:2 or above.
International applicants will be required to show a proficiency in English. An IELTS score of 6.5, with no element below 5.5, is proof of this.
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Theory, Text, Writing
You will study two additional 15 credit modules. The two modules may include subjects such as:
Anthony Burgess and the Archive
Regional and World Literatures
Representing Violence and Trauma
Writing Sex and Gender
Professional Practice
You will study two additional 15 credit modules. The two modules may include subjects such as:
Bestsellers and Prize Winners: Contemporary Literature and the Publishing World
Crime Writing
Adaptation, Translation and Retelling
Satire, Slapstick and Spoof: Varieties of Comedy
Final Project
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