Modules

Year 1 Compulsory modules currently include: Changing Literatures: From Chaucer to the Contemporary  Thinking through Theory  Optional modules may include: Narratives of Exclusion: Class, Capitalism & Belonging Creative Writing: Connections, Conversations, Collaborations Creative Writing Foundations Other Worlds: Dystopias and Futures American Power, American Protest Romantic Ecologies & the Modern Invention of Nature 'Black Girl Magic': Contemporary Feminisms Year 2 Compulsory modules currently include: Shakespeare: Before and After  World Literatures in English  Right/Write to the World: Displacement, Social Movements, Political Action  Optional modules may include: American Modernities: US Literature 1930 to the Present Approaching Poetry Becoming America: From Poe to The Great Gatsby Encounters with the Premodern, 1350-1700 Modernism Reading Victorian Literature Right/Write to the World: Displacement, Social Movements, Political Actio The Contemporary When Novels Were Novel: Eighteenth-Century Literature Year Abroad Year 3 Compulsory modules currently include: The Project Optional modules may include: A Woman’s Tale: Writing Female Identity and Experience in Medieval Europe American Crime Fiction Animals, Humans, Writing The Brontës in Context Centres and Edges: Modernist and Postcolonial Quest Literature Cross-Cultural Coming-of-Age Narratives The End of Empire: Post-Imperial Writing in Britain Foundations of Activism Global Capitalism and the Novel Innovation and Experiment in New York, 1945-2015 Magic, Marvels and Monsters in Medieval Literature Marlowe vs Shakespeare Perceptions, Pathologies, Disorders: Reading and Writing Mental Health Places, Journeys, Borders Queer Literature Representing World War Two #ShakeRace: Shakespeare and Racial Politics The End of the World The Gothic: Origins and Exhumations The Love Poem: Romantic Language from Thomas Wyatt to Taylor Swift The New Woman: First Wave Feminism and Women’s Writing, 1880-1920 The Unknown: Reading and Writing Creative Non-Fiction and Autofiction Virginia Woolf and the Novel