Creative Writing PhD
Entry requirements
For further information, or to discuss options for the shorter MPhil research degree, please contact us directly on english@aber.ac.uk
Months of entry
September
Course content
Part of what makes Aberystwyth special is our thriving research culture: you’ll get to join an engaging and interactive community where staff, students, and guest speakers come together to share and showcase their research. You’ll also work alongside researchers who are recognised internationally for their contributions to knowledge and the furthering of the discipline.
Department Expertise
The Department’s particular areas of expertise include:
- Contemporary poetry
- Crime fiction
- Life writing
- Horror
- Nature writing
- Black diaspora literature
- Postcolonial fiction
- Women’s writing
- Children’s literature
- Literary geography and ecocriticism
- LGBT writing
- Welsh writing in English
- Literatures of surveillance
- Literature and disability
- Irish writing
- Gothic literature and ghost stories
- Psychoanalysis
- Late Medieval secular literature
- Contemporary medievalism
- Romanticism
- Victorian literature
- Modernism and late modernism
- Postmodernism.
Information for international students
Information for international students can be found here: Information for International Students : Aberystwyth University
Fees and funding
For funding available to UK students: UK Students : Study With Us , Aberystwyth University
For funding available to International students: International Students : Study With Us , Aberystwyth University
Qualification, course duration and attendance options
- PhD
- part time60 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- Distance learningis available for this qualification
- Online learningis available for this qualification
- full time36 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- Distance learningis available for this qualification
- Online learningis available for this qualification
Course contact details
- Name
- Department of English & Creative Writing
- english@aber.ac.uk