Program Overview
The MA in Literature & Culture immerses students in English literature and culture, fostering their skills as scholars and critics. With a combination of core modules and specialized pathways, the program promotes critical analysis, independent research, and ethical engagement in diverse literary contexts, preparing graduates for careers in academia, creative industries, and beyond.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The MA in Literature & Culture is a flagship program in English-language literature and culture. It offers an intensive combination of taught courses and supervised research, designed to develop students' skills and confidence as scholars and critics of literature and its contexts. The program aims to enable students to develop as scholars, researchers, writers, and critics in their chosen specialism, equipped with a range of critical skills and methodologies for understanding and analyzing literature and culture across multiple historical, social, and intellectual contexts. Students are encouraged to engage critically with key issues and debates in relation to gender, race, class, sexuality, and alterity across diverse historical, cultural, and geopolitical contexts. The program values informed analysis, rigorous research, and methodological innovation. Teaching practice encourages engagement with existing knowledge and research combined with an openness to new perspectives and self-reflective, socially and politically engaged critical practice.
Outline:
The program consists of two core modules: Literary Research Methods and the MA Dissertation module. Students also take four taught modules from their specialist strand, choosing from a range of core and option modules.
Recent courses have included:
- Chaucer and the Fourteenth Century
- American Modernism at Home
- Re-reading the Renaissance
- American Lyric: Document and Memoir
- Memory Cultures
- Feeling Modern: Thinking and Being in 18th and 19th-Century Britain
- Social Network Analysis and Fiction
- World-Systems, World-Literature: Mapping the Planet
- Contemporary U.S. Genre Fiction: Intersection, Disruption, Protest However, it is stated that the program values informed analysis, rigorous research, and methodological innovation. Teaching practice encourages engagement with existing knowledge and research combined with an openness to new perspectives and self-reflective, socially and politically engaged critical practice.
Careers:
Graduates progress to a wide range of interesting careers. Some opt to stay on for doctoral work with a view to a career in academia. Most have gone on to work in a wide range of industries, including teaching, journalism, broadcasting, publishing, advertising, the Civil Service, libraries and archives, public relations, creative industries, cultural heritage, arts administration, banking, business, and NGO and advocacy work.
Other:
The program offers five specialized MA pathways: American Literature; Gender, Sexuality & Culture; Medieval Literature & Culture; Modern & Contemporary Literature; and Renaissance Literature & Culture.
EU fee per year - € 9100 nonEU fee per year - € 22600 EU fee per year - € 4550 nonEU fee per year - € 11300
