MA English Literary Studies

University of Exeter

Opportunity to develop specialist research interests via nine flexible ‘pathways’
Develop an enhanced understanding of literature and media in their historical and cultural contexts, and foster your communication and analytical skills
Ideal for students wishing to extend and enhance their studies before starting their career and work with the department’s internationally recognised Research Centres and Groups
Specifically designed for those seeking high level training prior to embarking on doctoral research
Excellent facilities on campus include our Special Collections featuring the papers of internationally important writers, The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum which is a unique film and popular culture resource and our Digital Humanities Lab. Exeter has also recently been awarded UNESCO City of Literature status

Opportunity to develop specialist research interests via nine flexible ‘pathways’
Develop an enhanced understanding of literature and media in their historical and cultural contexts, and foster your communication and analytical skills
Ideal for students wishing to extend and enhance their studies before starting their career and work with the department’s internationally recognised Research Centres and Groups
Specifically designed for those seeking high level training prior to embarking on doctoral research
Excellent facilities on campus include our Special Collections featuring the papers of internationally important writers, The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum which is a unique film and popular culture resource and our Digital Humanities Lab. Exeter has also recently been awarded UNESCO City of Literature status

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Start date

Sep 2025

Sep 2026

Duration

Campus

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4 - 6 weeks after your application is submitted

Backlogs accepted

This course accepts backlogs

Opportunity to develop specialist research interests via nine flexible ‘pathways’
Develop an enhanced understanding of literature and media in their historical and cultural contexts, and foster your communication and analytical skills
Ideal for students wishing to extend and enhance their studies before starting their career and work with the department’s internationally recognised Research Centres and Groups
Specifically designed for those seeking high level training prior to embarking on doctoral research
Excellent facilities on campus include our Special Collections featuring the papers of internationally important writers, The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum which is a unique film and popular culture resource and our Digital Humanities Lab. Exeter has also recently been awarded UNESCO City of Literature status

Opportunity to develop specialist research interests via nine flexible ‘pathways’
Develop an enhanced understanding of literature and media in their historical and cultural contexts, and foster your communication and analytical skills
Ideal for students wishing to extend and enhance their studies before starting their career and work with the department’s internationally recognised Research Centres and Groups
Specifically designed for those seeking high level training prior to embarking on doctoral research
Excellent facilities on campus include our Special Collections featuring the papers of internationally important writers, The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum which is a unique film and popular culture resource and our Digital Humanities Lab. Exeter has also recently been awarded UNESCO City of Literature status

Requirements

The requirements may vary based on your selected study options.

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Modules

Compulsory modules

Dissertation

Optional modules

Sense, Sensation and Cinema

Archival Encounters: Material Film Histories

Making Progress? Literature in a Changing Environment

The Cultures of American Modernism

Criticism and Theory: Current Debates

Revival and Return: Using the Past from Pope to Keats

Modernism and Material Culture

Renaissance Space

Victorian Things: Nineteenth-Century Material Culture

Publishing and Power: Black and Asian Literary Networks in the UK

Writing Women in the English Middle Ages

Latin American Cinema: Race, Nation and Representation

World Literature and Postcolonial Studies

Hearing Film: Film Sound and Music

Bodies Politic: Cultural and Sexual Politics in England, 1603-1679

Empire, Decadence and Modernity: Literature 1870-1910

Criticism and Theory: Critical and Literary Theory in a Global Context

The Body and Identity

The Literature of Cold War America

World Cinema / World Literature

Expanding Queerness: Critical Debates in Theory, Literature, Film and Television

Crossing Medieval Boundaries

Romanticism and the Politics of Exclusion

Game On

The Poetry of Events - Building a Plot

Writing Nature: Ecology, Place, Memoir (Creative Writing)

Prose Writing Workshop

Publishing and Power: Black and Asian Literary Networks in the UK

Writing for the Planet: Creative Writing as Activism in a Time of Climate Change and Ecological Decline

Writing for the Screen

The Structures of Realism

Image, Shape and Music