Overview
Pursue your love of literature at an advanced level, study modules on topics from the Renaissance to the modern day, and gain research skills that will help you stand out to employers or progress to a PhD. Our Masters course is ideal if you want to advance your teaching career or begin the move into academia.
- Join an ideal course to advance your teaching career or begin the move into academia
- Gain a broad understanding of English literature on modules from the Renaissance to the modern day
- Tailor the course to meet your own interests, with optional modules including novel writing and publishing.
- Develop research skills that will help you stand out to employers or progress to a PhD
With an overall focus on literature, politics and social change, our MA English Literature will equip you to engage with the interface between literature and society. By reading and contextualising a wide range of texts within their critical, cultural and historical contexts, you will be encouraged to evaluate the ideas of others and develop your own critical perspectives and areas of specialised knowledge.
You will develop skills and knowledge through a range of teaching and learning methods and by producing essays, presentations, annotated bibliographies, review essays, dissertation proposals, and a major research project in the form of a dissertation. The skills you learn will provide new directions for future employment and form the basis for further study.
The course focuses on three periods of literary history: the Renaissance, the ‘long’ nineteenth century and the 20th/21st century. Each of the three period-based modules is structured around ideas of politics and social change. The fourth module is a research methods module, which will equip you with the skills needed to complete your dissertations.
You will study in a lively and intellectual department with a long tradition of teaching excellence and an international reputation for research.
Course Leader: Dr Elizabeth Ludlow.
Supervision and Support
This course will give you the higher-level skills to stand out in today’s competitive job market.
If you are a teacher, you could study with us to update your knowledge and further your existing career, or even move into another discipline. Or, if you are hoping to move on to an academic post, this course will give you the research skills you will need for a PhD.
Assessment
Modules are subject to change and availability.
In consultation with the Course Leader, you will have the opportunity to replace one core module with an Independent Learning Module or a module from the MA Publishing or MA Creative Writing.
Publishing modules include:
- Creativity and Content in Publishing
- Legal Rights and Digital Issues in Publishing
- The Business of Publishing
- Production Processes in Publishing
Creative Writing modules include:
- Patterns of Story: Fiction and Forms
- Workshop: the Short Story
- Workshop: the novel
NB: To be considered for enrolment on any of the Creative Writing modules, you will be asked to submit a sample of your own writing and information on any creative writing study or experience you have in the semester before their chosen workshop begins. Please contact the Course Leader for further information in the first instance.
Your assessment will comprise a combination of essays, critical reviews and presentations, as well as a 15,000-word dissertation.
You can get advice on essay writing at consultation workshops which are built into the course.
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