MA Comparative Literature at King's College London

How can literature help us understand a world shaped by migration, translation, empire, and cultural encounter?This MA in Comparative Literature approaches literary study as a critical practice for thinking across time and space, examining how texts move, transform, and generate meaning through history, comparison, and connection. The programme develops advanced theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, encouraging students to draw on London’s rich cultural ecosystem where libraries, museums, and archives serve as a laboratory for original and forward-looking research. You will be taught by world-leading academics whose research expertise ranges from the ancient world to twenty-first-century European, Asian, Middle Eastern, African, and American literature from both Hemispheres.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities  |  Department: Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures  |  Duration: One year full-time, two years part-time, September to September  |  Study mode: full-time / part-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: London, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Course essentials This comparative literature master’s will teach you how to analyse and evaluate theories at the forefront of current literary scholarship. You’ll discover how to deploy these yourself and develop the skills to conduct research and communicate your findings at a postgraduate level. Your MA in comparative literature has two required modules and a compulsory dissertation.

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