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MA - Master of Arts
University of Essex
Full Time
OCT
1 Year
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MA - Master of Arts
University of Essex
Full Time
OCT
2 Years
MA - Master of Arts
University of Essex
Full Time
OCT-26
1 Year
MA - Master of Arts
University of Essex
Full Time
OCT
1 Year
MA - Master of Arts
University of Essex
Full Time
OCT-26
2 Years
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Our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies offers supervision for MA by Dissertation (MAD) in Literature in all fields of staff research interest, which includes a wide range of expertise in different literatures and in varying approaches to literature, covering most aspects from early modern to modern writing in English and a number of other languages. The Department's research strengths include Early Modern literature, Romanticism, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, US and Caribbean literature, postcolonial literature, modern, postmodern and contemporary (twentieth- and twenty-first century) literature, eco-criticism and nature writing, black and black diaspora writing, travel writing, First World War writing, literature and human rights, science fiction, and the post-human. A number of our graduates have gone on to undertake successful careers as writers. Other past students are now established as scholars, university lecturers, teachers, publishers, publishers' editors, journalists, arts administrators, theatre artistic directors, drama advisers, and translators. We also offer a PhD and an MPhil in this subject. Please note, part-time research study is also available.
We will consider a 2:1 or above (or international equivalent) in a relevant subject such as creative writing, theatre/drama studies, literature, film and media studies, modern languages and art history.
Students living in
Domestic
£5,006 per year
Students from Domestic
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£19,650 per year
Students from EU
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£19,650 per year
Students from International
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