MA English Literature at Swansea University

This MA explores diverse areas of literary culture and develops research and critical writing skills through reading widely across literatures in English from the medieval period to the present. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, relating texts to history, philosophy, politics and visual culture, and concludes with a dissertation on a topic of the student's choosing.

Faculty: School of Culture and Communication  |  Department: English Literature and Creative Writing  |  Duration: 1 year full time; 2 or 3 years part time  |  Intake: September  |  Location: Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

What you will study

Modules include Researching Literature Today: Academic Practice, Words of Power, Research Practice in English Literature, Slow Reading: Attention, Interpretation, Resistance and two Special Research Topics, followed by a 60-credit dissertation.

Career pathways

Graduates have gone on to teaching, publishing, writing and authorship, arts and creative industries, charities and non-profits, marketing, PR and advertising, cultural heritage, libraries and archives, politics and public policy, and PhD study.

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