Our dynamic English BA degree offers a varied literature syllabus with areas of study ranging from medieval performance to contemporary poetry, global fiction, and creative writing. With more than 50 optional modules to choose from, you can shape your own specialism by selecting the topics that interest you most. You’ll learn how to apply a range of theoretical and historical approaches to literary study and develop essential skills in critical thinking, expression, and research at one of the oldest English departments in the country. Your central London location will encourage you to engage with the literary history and culture right on your doorstep, with sites such as Shakespeare’s Globe and the British Film Institute a short walk away. You’ll pair this with a deep understanding of global literature gained via a curriculum that explores writing from beyond the UK to include the US, Anglophone Africa, Ireland, and South Asia. By choosing an English degree at King’s, you will encounter literature that stretches back through the centuries and reaches out across the globe. You’ll be given the freedom to shape your own syllabus from the first year, with an excitingly diverse range of modules that span genre, period and place and include creative writing. This BA in English combines contemporary literary theory, close textual examination and historical study to offer open and imaginative approaches to classic English texts.