Modules

The following modules are what students typically study, but this may change year to year in response to new developments and innovations. Stage 1: Compulsory modules currently include the following: Changing Literatures; Other Worlds: Dystopias and Futures; Adventures in Criticism; Romantic Ecologies: Literature, Environment and Climate Crisis; Creative and Critical Conversations. Optional modules may include the following: Class: Narratives of Exclusion and Belonging; American Power, American Protest. Stage 2: Compulsory modules currently include the following: Shakespeare: Before and After; World Literatures in English; Right/Write to the World: Displacement, Social Movements, Political Action. Optional modules may include the following: American Modernities: US Literature 1930 to the Present; Becoming America: From Poe to The Great Gatsby; Encounters with the Premodern, 1350 - 1700; Modernism; Reading Victorian Literature; The Contemporary; When Novels Were Novel: Eighteenth-Century Literature. Stage 3: Compulsory modules currently include the following: The Project. Optional modules may include the following: A Woman's Tale: Writing Female Identity and Experience in Medieval Europe; American Crime Fiction; Animals, Humans, Writing; The Brontes 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.