English Literature

Entry requirements

You should normally hold an upper second-class honours degree, or its equivalent, in English Literature or a related subject.

If it is some time since you completed your undergraduate education, or you do not meet the standard requirement, it may be possible to consider your application based on evidence of other relevant personal and professional experience, the support of your referees, and examples of written work.

English language requirements

Months of entry

September

Course content

Our MA in English Literature offers an exciting and challenging course of graduate study covering a range of periods and genres from the Renaissance to the Contemporary.

During the course you will:

• take core compulsory modules that provide a secure grounding in the key methods of postgraduate study
• choose two elective modules from a wide range of options, periods and genres
• undertake an advanced in-depth study of a topic of your choice from English Literature for your dissertation.

You'll study with internationally-renowned scholars who regularly publish in their field. And you will have access to inspiring, on-campus literary resources such as:

• Man/Booker Prize archive
• Royal Literary Fund fellows
• the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre.

As well as full reader access to the Bodleian Library, one of the most important research collections in the world.

Oxford is one of the most literary cities in the world. Home to J. R. R Tolkien and C.S Lewis, and inspiration to countless authors, poets and dreamers - what better city in which to study literature?

Information for international students

Pathways courses for international and EU students

Fees and funding

• Funding for Postgraduate students from the UK and EU.

• Funding for Postgraduate students from outside the EU.