MA English Literature: Science Fiction Studies
Course Overview
This MA in English Literature: Science Fiction Studies offers a rigorous academic exploration of science fiction as a dynamic literary genre and cultural force. You will analyze the role of science fiction in reflecting societal views on technology, the future, and humanity, supported by access to Europe's largest dedicated collection of SF materials. The program equips you with advanced critical skills for a career in academia, publishing, and beyond.
Key Program Highlights
- Study at a university with a renowned international reputation in science fiction scholarship
- Gain exclusive access to the largest specialist collection of science fiction materials in Europe
- Explore critical themes like technology, apocalypse, and the evolving relationship between literature and science
- Develop highly transferable skills in critical analysis, research, and clear communication
- Prepare for diverse careers in academia, publishing, journalism, teaching, and the business sector
Course Overview
This MA in English Literature: Science Fiction Studies offers a rigorous academic exploration of science fiction as a dynamic literary genre and cultural force. You will analyze the role of science fiction in reflecting societal views on technology, the future, and humanity, supported by access to Europe's largest dedicated collection of SF materials. The program equips you with advanced critical skills for a career in academia, publishing, and beyond.
Key Program Highlights
- Study at a university with a renowned international reputation in science fiction scholarship
- Gain exclusive access to the largest specialist collection of science fiction materials in Europe
- Explore critical themes like technology, apocalypse, and the evolving relationship between literature and science
- Develop highly transferable skills in critical analysis, research, and clear communication
- Prepare for diverse careers in academia, publishing, journalism, teaching, and the business sector
Requirements
Modules
- Research Skills and Practice
- Genre Definitions
- Science Fiction and/as the Archive
- Victorian Murder and Other Crimes
- Victorian Apocalypse
- Shakespeare & Co
- Editing the Early Modern
- The Modern
- Literature and Crisis
- Dissertation Preparation Project
- Fictions of Technology
- Bodies in Space
- Haunted: Shakespeare and the Gothic in Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Literature
- Literature, Slavery and Empire
- Yore Victorians
- Reading Victorians
- The Contemporary
- The Body
- Dissertation
