MA English Literature

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There are a number of possible sources of funding: loans and grants, bursaries and scholarships.

A Masters degree in English Literature is an excellent preparation for a wide range of careers. As well as deepening your knowledge in your chosen areas in English, you will also develop transferable skills, such as research, analysis and presentation skills.

Completing an MA can be the first step in an academic career in Higher or Further Education, while also enhancing your career options outside the field of academia.

One popular career choice is teaching English, either in the UK (having completed a PGCE) or abroad. The fields of publishing, advertising, arts administration, PR, television, the film industry and other media-related jobs are also ideal destinations for English Literature graduates.

Core modules

• Research Methods and Writing Skills
• Editing and Textual Cultures

You will also choose:

• either your Dissertation and Authorship and Authority
• or the Extended Dissertation

Option modules

Choose three option modules from:

• Old Haunts: The Ghost Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture 
• Roman Remains: Classical Antiquity in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
• Women in Literature, Culture, and Society, 1850-1900
• Poetry Writing and Contemporary Poetry
• The Brontës
• Twenty-First Century Fiction
• North American Indigenous Literatures
• Charles Dickens: A Writer in Progress
• Bodies 1850-1918
• Evolution and Entropy: Changing Representations of the Sciences in Victorian Literature
• Writing Fiction
• Victorian Lives: Life-Writing in the Victorian Period
• Abolition and Adventure: Narratives of the Atlantic World
• Women in Literature, Culture, and Society, 1850-1900
• The Stream of Consciousness Novel