English Literature

Entry requirements

2:1 (or equivalent) in an undergraduate degree in English Literature or a related degree.

Applicants are asked to provide a writing sample to demonstrate suitability for the course.

Months of entry

September

Course content

Our MA will train you in the study of writing and culture across a range of periods, cultures, and genres. It has an open and flexible study route. You will choose from a number of modules that address a range of issues and topics in the field of literatures written in English as well as literary theory and World Literature.

Modules range from Feminist Literary Theory and Queer Studies to Ecopoetics, the Gothic, World Literatures, and Drama. You will study four modules, two in Term One and two in Term Two, and undertake a dissertation project on an (approved) topic of your choice with a specialist supervisor in Term Three.