English

Entry requirements

A Masters degree in a literary subject or another discipline relevant to your chosen area of research.

Months of entry

January, October, April

Course content

• PhD in English
• MPhil in English

The English faculty encompasses research strengths and interests that span most periods of English literature and contemporary critical theory.

Particular areas of expertise include Renaissance writing; culture and ideology; the novel from the 18th century to the present; romantic, Victorian and modern poetry; and all aspects of modernism and postmodernism.

There is a strong commitment to the interdisciplinary study of literature in its historical and discursive context in relation to philosophy, history of art and the history of ideas; to postcolonial and feminist criticism; to gay and blesbian criticism; and to recent developments in psychoanalytic, Marxist, post-structuralist and ‘new historicist’ criticism.

Research training

The University’s Doctoral School runs a wide range of training courses covering the needs of students throughout all phases of their studies.

Recent and current thesis titles

• Gossip: gender and genre from Pepys to Woolf
• Law and form: Joyce, Beckett and philosophy
• More intimate than violence: rape, representation and the civic bond
• Shakespeare and cyberspace
• Temporality in modernist literature
• The body in sickness in England 1558-1640
• Thomas Hardy’s relations with contemporary readers
• TS Eliot, mass culture and the music hall
• Virginia Woolf’s essays: a woman writer’s production of literary history
• Waking nightmares: a critical study of Ian McEwan’s novels

Information for international students

See link for international students' entry requirements: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/phd/apply/international-qualifications/overseas-qualifications

Fees and funding

The University of Sussex aims to attract the most talented students to postgraduate study and offers one of the most generous scholarship programmes of any UK university. For full details of our scholarships please visit: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/phd/fees-and-scholarships/scholarships

Qualification and course duration

PhD

MPhil