MA English Literature at York St John University

Develop your expertise as a sophisticated reader and critic across a range of literary materials, while also developing valuable professional skills. Our English Literature MA is an opportunity to engage with a wide range of contemporary and historical texts to explore questions of intertextuality, adaptation, appropriation, tradition and literary inheritance. As well as studying texts in depth, you will go beyond this to consider their wider contexts and the interelationships between them. We also focus on investigating the concept of literary value, how it can be determined or disputed, and literature’s relationship to space and place.

Faculty: School of Humanities  |  Duration: 1 year full time, 2 years part time  |  Study mode: full-time/part-time  |  Intake: September 2027, September 2028  |  Location: York, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Compulsory modules include Literary Studies Now; Influence and Intertext; World, Globe, Literature; Readers, Markets and Literary Value; Dissertation.

Career pathways

This postgraduate degree could lead you to a career directly related to English Literature, or it could take you in a completely different direction, using the many transferrable skills you will develop. Example roles include Journalism; Marketing and communications; Publishing; Teaching; Libraries and archives; Arts and heritage.

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