Faculty of English

MPhil in American Literature

Michaelmas 2019

• Foundation Course
• Research Methods

Lent 2020

Optional Courses

Priority will be given to those enrolled in the MPhil in American Literature

• America and the Art of Assemblage, Dr Amy Morris
• Contemporary American Fiction, Dr Kasia Boddy

MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literature

Michaelmas 2019

• Resources and Methods

• Core 1 - Texts and Contexts 1830-1914

The Idea of a University in the 19th Century - Dr Ruth Abbott
Browning and the Question of Representation - Dr Ross Wilson
Dickens - Dr Jan Schramm
Style - Dr Daniel Tyler
19th Century Life Writing - Dr Clare Walker-Gore
Victorian Utopias - Dr Marcus Waithe


• Core 2 - Texts and Contexts 1914 – present

Careful Reading: Zadie Smith and the New Ethics - Dr Robert Macfarlane
The Modern 'Art' Theatre- Dr Zoe Svendsen
'Good prose is like a window-pane'? Form, style, and the problem of truth in George Orwell's non-fiction. - Dr Lisa Mullen
Caryl Churchill and the Politics of Dramaturgy - Dr Zoe Svendsen
Free Verse and Secularisation: A Cognitive Approach to Poetic Experience - Dr Laura Kilbride
The Photo-book - Dr Deborah Bowman

 

Optional Courses

Priority will be given to those enrolled in the MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literature

• Towards a Literary History of Human Rights, Dr Jan Schramm
• Green Ink: Landscape, Literature, and Ecocriticism, Dr Lisa Mullen
• Writers' Notebooks: Literature, Scholarship, and the Organisation of Knowledge, 1800-1900, Dr Ruth Abbott

Lent 2020

Optional Courses

Priority will be given to those enrolled in the MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literature

• Literature and Ultimate Questions, Dr Michael Hurley
• Victorian Work Ethics: Labour in the Literary Imagination, 1830-1914, Dr Marcus Waithe
• Various Things, Dr Edward Allen
• British and Irish Poetry since the 1960s, Prof John Kerrigan

• Resources for Research

Optional Courses

Priority will be given to those enrolled in the MPhil in 18th Century and Romantic Studies

• Inventing Criticism, Dr Ross Wilson
• Changeable Forms: Eighteenth-Century Embodiment, Dr Rebecca Barr

• Dissertation Workshops, Prof. Pete de Bolla

Optional Courses

Priority will be given to those enrolled in the MPhil in 18th Century and Romantic Studies

• The Romantic Songbook, Dr Corinna Russell
• Literature and Popular Culture, Dr Mina Gorji and Dr Phil Connell

Michaelmas Term 2019

• Dissertation Workshops

Optional Courses

Priority will be given to those enrolled in the MPhil in Criticism and Culture

• Decolonise: the Life and Times of an Idea, Dr Priya Gopal
• Feminist Science Fiction, Dr Sarah Dillon
• Dramaturgies, Dr Zoe Svendsen

Lent Term 2020

Optional Courses

Priority will be given to those enrolled in the MPhil in Criticism and Culture

• The Body in Culture, Dr David Hillman
• Affects in Modern Literature and Theory, Dr Alex Houen
• Cultures of the Anthropocene, Dr Robert Macfarlane
• Contemporary Marxist Poetics, Dr Drew Milne

MEDIEVAL

Michaelmas 2019

• Texts, Contexts and Methods (Interpretation of Literary Texts)
• Textual and Related Studies
• Introduction to Bibliography for Medieval Research

Lent 2020

• Textual and Related Studies

Optional Courses

Priority will be given to those enrolled in the MPhil in Medieval Literature

• Medieval Books and Texts in the Digital Age, Dr Orietta da Rold
• Love, Sex, and Desire in the Middle Ages, Dr Philip Knox
• Images, Relics, Idols and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England, Prof Nicolette Zeeman

RENAISSANCE

Michaelmas 2019

• Resources for Research
• Renaissance Palaeography, Dr Gavin Alexander
• Introduction to Textual Studies
• Core Course

Lent 2020

Optional Courses

Priority will be given to those enrolled in the MPhil in Renaissance Literature

• Renaissance Lyric, Dr Gavin Alexander
• Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Dr Subha Mukherji
• The Botanical Renaissance, Dr Bonnie Lander-Johnson