Ma english literature: english literature english

Structure

Please note for 2019/20 entry:

Our MA English Programmes are currently undergoing a review to ensure the content continues to offer an outstanding teaching and learning experience for our students.

Your programme will offer specially-designed core modules alongside the opportunity to choose from a range of electives in specialist areas.

The English Literature pathway is currently available for one year full-time study, or two years part-time study.

You take two compulsory modules and three optional modules, as well as the 15,000-word dissertation.

Modules are taught in weekly two-hour seminars. The research-training module will involve visits to archives and galleries which may each take up an afternoon. The dissertation is supervised through sessions with a specially designated supervisor. In addition to the timetabled sessions, you will be asked to attend meetings with your adviser and course tutor. You will also need to undertake many hours of independent learning and research in order to progress at the required level. When coursework deadlines are approaching independent learning hours may need to increase significantly.

You take four modules (two in each semester) and one non-assessed research training module before proceeding to the 15,000-word dissertation.

We understand the need for flexibility for part-time students. In your first year, part-time students take two compulsory modules, a research skills module and one optional module. You are encouraged to begin work on your dissertation at the end of the first year (you submit it in August of your second year). Second year part-time students take two optional modules and the dissertation. Teaching takes place during the day.

All students take these compulsory modules:

• The Production of Texts in Context
• Resources for Research (non-assessed)
• Dissertation

You also choose one of the following
Researching Modern Culture; London Panoramas: Research, Culture and the Long Eighteenth Century, or The Material Text, 1300-1700

You choose three modules from a wide-ranging list of options that changes from year to year.

In 2017-2018 we hope to offer the following. If members of our specialist research staff win research funding it will mean that their module won’t run, so for that reason this list is indicative only.

• Aestheticism and fin-de siècle Literature
• Benjamin and Adorno
• Cultural Legacies of the First World War
• Cultures of Friendship
• Forms of Modernism
• Global Interests in the Shakespearean World
• Global Shakespeare: History and Theory and Performance
• Ideas and Metaphors: 1700-1820
• International Romanticism
• Literature, Science and Technology
• Modernism and After
• Peripheral Modernities
• Public and Private Cultures
• Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction
• Radical Romantics: The Godwins and the Shelleys
• Reading the Middle East
• Selfhood and Enlightenment in the Long Eighteenth Century
• The State of the Novel
• Victorian Print Culture
• Writing the East End

You may, subject to availability and the approval of the School, take one of your option modules from across a range offered by other Schools in the Humanities and Social Science Faculty, or from other Colleges of the University of London.

In addition to taught modules, we run a range of research seminars to which all MA students are invited. Some of these are linked to our interdisciplinary Research Centres, such as the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, the Centre for Religion and Literature in English and the Centre for the History of the Emotions. Others are collaborations with other institutions, such as the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar. With visiting speakers from across the world, these seminars are an opportunity to meet other postgraduate students and members of staff and to learn about the latest developments in research.