BA (Hons) English Literature at University of Brighton

At Brighton, our English Literature degree offers a fresh, modern approach while honouring the rich history of writing. You will dive into classic topics like Shakespeare and Victorian sexualities, but also explore contemporary issues like Black British literature, identity, and diversity. Our course takes a multidisciplinary, decolonised approach, connecting literature to philosophy, art history, to media, and making it relevant to today’s world.

Faculty: School of Humanities and Social Science  |  Department: Literature  |  Duration: full-time: 3 years; with placement year: 4 years  |  Study mode: full-time (optional placement year)  |  Intake: 2027 entry  |  Location: Brighton, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

The content and structure of the course reflects its aims and ethos, providing a core grounding in approaches, theories, genres and periods in the first two years, followed by opportunities for pursuing individual research and practice interests in the third year. Your degree includes core literature modules and further option modules through which you will be able to forge a personal pathway. For example you might take creative or writing modules at each level to provide a distinctive creative strand through the degree, which can then be supplemented in your dissertation. Modules include Textual Encounters: Reading, Writing, Thinking, Empire and Revolution, Poetry-Politics-Protest, Introducing Research, The World, the Text and the Critic, Literary Histories of Cultures and Identities, Women’s Writing and Feminist Theory, Queer Writing, From Postcolonial to Black British Literature, Image and Text: The Language of Comics and Graphic Novels.

Career pathways

As an English literature degree graduate you'll have a broad range of skills that can be used in many roles and sectors. Our graduates have gone on to wide-ranging careers in areas including:

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