Staff have a broad range of research expertise that feeds directly into teaching and dissertation supervision.OverviewThis course enables you to extend and develop your research skills and explore research issues across a broad range of periods. The flexible programme structure and small-group, research-led teaching of modules facilitates specialisation in those areas of greatest interest for you, while acquainting you with a relevant range of skills and conceptual frameworks to enhance your
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Staff have a broad range of research expertise that feeds directly into teaching and dissertation supervision.
Overview
This course enables you to extend and develop your research skills and explore research issues across a broad range of periods. The flexible programme structure and small-group, research-led teaching of modules facilitates specialisation in those areas of greatest interest for you, while acquainting you with a relevant range of skills and conceptual frameworks to enhance your study, such as the nature of archival study, genre and textuality, the relationship between print and manuscript, interdisciplinarity, and questions of cultural and political context.
Staff in the school have a broad range of research expertise that feeds directly into teaching and dissertation supervision. Accordingly, students taking the English Literature MA are able to develop a bespoke programme that introduces a wide variety of material but allows a high degree of flexibility in selecting texts for more detailed study and assessment.
Areas to be studied on these period-specific modules may include:
- Tudor and Stuart cultural identity, Older Scots literature, and Ricardian literature
- Late Middle English poetry
- Early Modern Drama
- 18th-century and Romantic writers
- Victorian and fin-de-siècle literature
- Modernism
- Regional Literature
- A range of contemporary poets and novelists
- The Gothic, sensation and crime fiction and literature of British India
Careers
Our postgraduate students move into an extraordinarily wide range of careers following their time in the school.
Conducting postgraduate work in the School of English fosters many vital skills and may give you a head start in the job market. Studying at this level allows you to develop qualities of self-discipline and self-motivation that are essential to employment in a wide range of different fields.
We will help you develop your ability to research and process a large amount of information quickly, and to present the results of your research in an articulate and effective way. A postgraduate degree from the School of English at the University of Nottingham shows potential employers that you are an intelligent, hard-working individual who is bright and flexible enough to undertake any form of specific career training.
