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English Literature (PhD)

University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

A PhD is the highest academic award for which a student can be registered. This programme allows you to explore and pursue a research project built around a substantial piece of work, which has to show evidence of original contribution to knowledge. A full-time Ph.D. is a three-year program of research and culminates in the production of a large-scale piece of written work in the form of a research thesis that should not normally exceed 80,000 words. You are expected to work to an approved programme of study which will be determined through discussion with your supervisors. In addition to work on your thesis, your programme of study might encompass attendance at particular postgraduate courses, conferences, seminars, and masterclasses. Completing a Ph.D. enables you to contribute knowledge in your chosen field. You will develop your critical thinking to a high level, and gain important professional skills which will support your subsequent career.

General Eligibility

The normal level of attainment required for entry is:

  • Master's degree from a UK University or equivalent, normally with a classification of merit or distinction, in a discipline appropriate to the proposed programme, or

  • an upper second class honours degree (2:1) from a UK university in a discipline appropriate to that of the proposed programme, or

  • appropriate research or professional experience at postgraduate level, which has resulted in published work, written reports or other appropriate evidence of accomplishment.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 What can I research?

We have expertise in literature and culture from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Our particular areas of expertise include:

  • Lifewriting and literary biography

  • Environmental literature: Shakespeare to the present.

  • Women’s writing and the Renaissance

  • The Victorian period and its afterlife

  • Representations of Romani history and experience

  • Literature of canals, waterways and rivers, the ‘Blue Humanities’

  • Literatures of ageing

  • Narrating illness

  • Contemporary women novelists

  • Modern and contemporary poetry, in particular Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney

  • Postmodernism and beyond

We also welcome proposals that fall in the general areas of: Contemporary and Modern Literature, the Victorian Period, the Long Eighteenth Century, the Renaissance, and the Medieval Period.

Language Requirement

  • IELTS7.0
  • TOEFL109
  • PTE79
  • Duolingo100
The minimum for IELTS is 7.0 overall with no element lower than 6.5, or equivalent will be considered acceptable.

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