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MA Literary Studies: Pathway in Modern and Contemporary American Literature and Culture

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    MA 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time

Course Description

This pathway of the MA Literary Studies aims to enhance your knowledge and understanding of the literature that has sought to define or has emerged from ‘America’.

The legacies of settler colonialism; racialised inequality and violence; the social impacts of capitalism and industrialisation, urbanisation and technology; environmental catastrophe: these are the urgent issues facing America now, but which have been pre-occupying American literature since at least the nineteenth century.

The project of democracy continues to be fraught, the notion of a common and coherent national identity and history continues to be contested, and American literature continues to find new ways and forms to offer social critiques, to express alternative social possibilities, and to reveal the many different “Americas” that belie the idea of nation. It is this literary scrutiny that energises the pathway in American literature and culture.

Entry Requirements

You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant/related subject.

You might also be considered for some programmes if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

Goldsmiths offers a range of financial support including postgraduate scholarships, bursaries and fee waivers. These are awarded based on a variety of criteria, for example academic achievements or personal circumstances.

Student Destinations

Graduates of this programme have gone on to pursue careers in:

  • publishing
  • journalism
  • public relations
  • teaching
  • advertising
  • the civil service
  • business
  • industry
  • the media

Module Details

You will study the following compulsory module, as well as writing a Dissertation (60 Credits)

Compulsory modules

  • American Literature and Culture: Critical and Theoretical Concepts 30 credits

In addition to the compulsory module, you also take three option modules from the selection below.

Option modules 

  • Studies in Comparative Literature & Criticism 30 credits
  • Theories of Literature & Culture 30 credits
  • Modern Literary Movements 30 credits
  • Literature of the Caribbean & its Diasporas 30 credits
  • Nineteenth-Century Literature: Romanticisms 30 credits
  • Shakespeare and the Early Modern 30 credits
  • Modern and Contemporary Women’s Writing: 1920s To Present 30 credits
  • Literature and Philosophy 30 credits
  • Contemporary Indigenous Literatures: Place, Politics and Identity 30 credits
  • Documenting America: The Photo Text 1910 to 1960 30 credits
  • Contemporary African American Literature 30 credits
  • Twenty-First-Century American Fiction 30 credits
  • Discourse and identity in spoken interaction 30 credits
  • European Decadence and the Visual Arts 30 credits
  • Postcolonial Fiction: Theory and Practice 30 credits
  • Romantic Shakespeare 30 credits
  • The Contemporary American Novel in the Era of Climate Change 30 credits
  • Interculturality, Text, Poetics 30 credits
  • Elizabethan Style: Visual and Verbal 30 credits
  • Between Languages: Multilingualism and Translation in Contemporary Literature 30 credits
  • Text in Performance: Shakespeare 30 credits

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