English

Entry requirements

We would normally expect students starting a PhD or MPhil to hold a first class or a good second-class degree.

Months of entry

Anytime

Course content

The MPhil is awarded for a dissertation of not more than 60,000 words and the PhD for a dissertation normally of not more than 100,000 words.

Research Areas

English with specialisations in:

• Other Literature from the Middle Ages and the 16th, 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
• English Literature post 1500
• Arthurian literature
• American Literature
• Comparative Literature
• Anglo-Welsh Writing
• Postcolonial Literature
• Gender and Writing
• Autobiography
• Travel Writing
• Romanticism
• Renaissance Literature
• Modern English and American Drama
• Milton and Literature of the Civil War period
• Modernism
• Contemporary Poetry
• Creative Writing.

Information for international students

Students whose first language is not English are expected to have achieved an IELTS score of at least 6.5 with no element below 6.0.