MA English Literary Studies
Course Overview
Pursue an advanced exploration of English literature with a master's degree from the University of Southampton. This flexible program allows you to tailor your studies across a wide range of authors, periods, and critical approaches, fostering advanced research skills and independent critical thinking. Upon completion, you will be well-prepared for a successful career in fields such as teaching, publishing, and arts administration.
Key Program Highlights
- Choose from four specialized pathways or a general, interdisciplinary approach to suit your interests
- Develop advanced skills in archival research, critical analysis, and theoretical method
- Examine how literature intersects with and influences diverse cultural and public fields
- Learn from expert faculty, including course leader Professor Stephen Bending, a specialist in 18th-century literature
- Gain the expertise for careers in teaching, publishing, arts administration, and further academic research
Course Overview
Pursue an advanced exploration of English literature with a master's degree from the University of Southampton. This flexible program allows you to tailor your studies across a wide range of authors, periods, and critical approaches, fostering advanced research skills and independent critical thinking. Upon completion, you will be well-prepared for a successful career in fields such as teaching, publishing, and arts administration.
Key Program Highlights
- Choose from four specialized pathways or a general, interdisciplinary approach to suit your interests
- Develop advanced skills in archival research, critical analysis, and theoretical method
- Examine how literature intersects with and influences diverse cultural and public fields
- Learn from expert faculty, including course leader Professor Stephen Bending, a specialist in 18th-century literature
- Gain the expertise for careers in teaching, publishing, arts administration, and further academic research
Requirements
Modules
- Adventures in Literary Research
- English Dissertation
- Approaches to Critical and Creative Concepts
- Approaches to Literary Genres
- Approaches to Shakespeare, Past and Present
- Approaches to the Long Eighteenth Century
- Approaches to the Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1914)
- Approaches to the Long Twentieth Century (1914-Present)
- Communicating the Cultural Industries
- Digital Forms
- Literary Industries and New Media
- Literature, Culture and Social Change
- Narrative Non-Fiction: From Literary Journalism to Memoir
- Narrative, Place, Identity
- Popular Fiction and Digital Culture
- The Art and Craft of Fiction
- Transnational Movement in the Age of Globalisation
