Course Overview

Our MA in Contemporary Literature and Culture (2000-present) offers you the chance to specialize in twenty-first-century literature and culture, as well as expose you to the most important literary and theoretical developments of the last few decades.

Informed by our world-class research in contemporary literary and cultural studies, in this course, you will examine:

the effects of new technologies on narrative form

the aesthetic, spatial, and political coordinates of writing produced in an increasingly networked and globalized world

literature’s role among a vibrant and diverse range of digital, visual, and multimedia texts.

You will develop your expertise in key topics, such as migrants’ narratives and refugee film-making; precarity fiction and emergent pandemic storytelling; anti-gentrification zines and the low-fi aesthetics of resistance; nonhuman forms of agency; post-gender feminism; the relationship of genres such as science fiction, horror and the fantastic to literary fiction; trans aesthetics in film and TV; African American poetry and performance; contemporary black aesthetics.

Our MA in Contemporary Literature and Culture (2000-present) offers you the chance to specialize in twenty-first-century literature and culture, as well as expose you to the most important literary and theoretical developments of the last few decades.

Informed by our world-class research in contemporary literary and cultural studies, in this course, you will examine:

the effects of new technologies on narrative form

the aesthetic, spatial, and political coordinates of writing produced in an increasingly networked and globalized world

literature’s role among a vibrant and diverse range of digital, visual, and multimedia texts.

You will develop your expertise in key topics, such as migrants’ narratives and refugee film-making; precarity fiction and emergent pandemic storytelling; anti-gentrification zines and the low-fi aesthetics of resistance; nonhuman forms of agency; post-gender feminism; the relationship of genres such as science fiction, horror and the fantastic to literary fiction; trans aesthetics in film and TV; African American poetry and performance; contemporary black aesthetics.

General Eligibility

Our standard postgraduate entry requirement is a second-class honors degree (2:2 or above) from a UK university or an equivalent international qualification. Your first degree does not have to be in English Literature.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• If English is not your first language or you have not previously studied in English, the requirement for this program is the equivalent of an International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic Test) score of 7.0, with not less than 6.5 in each of the sub-tests.