Modern and Contemporary Literature MA
Year of entry: 2025
Course length: 12 months Full-time | 24 months Part-time
About the course
Our MA Modern and Contemporary Literature master’s course offers an opportunity to become part of an exciting, intellectual group of researchers working in 20th and 21st century literature, culture and theory.
You’ll undertake an intensive and challenging investigation of the literatures in this period, as well as units that introduce you to leading research in the broad field of modern and contemporary writing. We focus theoretically on the relationships between texts and the various contexts in which they’re produced and in which they circulate.
Through detailed engagements with the minutiae of aesthetic form, we consider the connections between aesthetic and political practice, with particular focus on representations and constructions of sexuality, class, gender and race.
Course Units
This course consists of taught units and a dissertation. Taught units cover topics including:
- Postcolonial Literatures, Genre and Theories
- Modernisms
- Gender, Sexuality and Culture
- Reading the Contemporary
- Queer Cinema and Beyond
These are example course units based on 2024/25 options and are subject to change each year.
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