Course Overview

Our MA in English Literature offers opportunities to deepen your passion for literature in English through research-led modules that engage and push the boundaries of new and emerging disciplinary frameworks and debates. Supported by an academic team of research specialists, it creates a space for you to advance your visionary and communication talents and further your professional prospects. We offer a close and mutually supportive learning community that recognizes and responds to your distinctive learning needs and interests through seven student-centered, flexible, and vibrant modules that engage you with the latest literary debates. You will explore an exciting range of genres, approaches, authors, and themes. Our innovative modes of assessment are designed to develop your interests: you will choose texts, writers, genres, theories, articles, and literary periods on which to focus independently.

This course equips you with highly sought-after organizational, project-managing, research, delivery, liaison, problem-solving, and interaction skills. Flexible and vibrant, it allows you to pursue your interests in various written and verbal assignments. You will gain advanced knowledge of literary critical analysis and theory, independent scholarship, and knowledge transfer through excellent communication skills.

We have an established research culture, and you will be invited to join our staff at regular literary events, workshops, and presentations. You will be encouraged to participate in the research seminar series, conferences, and other public events. The English team is committed to producing high-quality academic outputs, acknowledged in the recent outcome of REF 2021. The department's publications express the thematic range of the team’s work, the richness of its research, and the character of its public impact projects. The published outputs assessed through REF 2021 include those reflecting: research on women writers, life stories, and the Victorian and Edwardian period; explorations of William Blake and nineteenth-century literature and culture; research on the popular media relating to the Falklands War; and investigations of the life of Florence Nightingale. REF 2021 recognized the quality of the engagement of English staff in public impact, as represented in projects extending locally, nationally, and internationally.

General Eligibility

You would usually be expected to have, or predicted to have, at least a 2.2 Honours degree in English Literature or a related discipline.

If you hold another degree at a 2.2 or above, you will be asked to demonstrate sufficient subject knowledge of the program content depending upon the content. This would be assessed at the interview and application.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• N/A