Faculty of English

MPhil in American Literature

Michaelmas 2021

• Foundation Course
• Research Methods

Lent 2022

Optional Courses

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

• Melodrama and Mise en Scène, Dr Joseph Bitney
• Contemporary American Fiction, Dr Kasia Boddy

MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literature

Michaelmas 2021

• Resources and Methods

• Core 1 - Texts and Contexts 1830-1914

1. What is a Dickinson Poem? - Dr Josie Donoghue
2. Hopkins and the Greeks - Dr Anna Nickerson
3. Victorian Utopias - Dr Marcus Waithe
4. Vernon Lee and Physiological Aesthetics - Dr Claudia Tobin
5. Rhythm and Modernist Magazine Culture - Dr Claudia Tobin
6. The Global Museum and the Modern Spectator - Dr Claudia Tobin

• Core 2 - Texts and Contexts 1914 – present

1.The Modern 'art' theatre - Dr Zoe Svendsen
2. Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury Aesthetics - Dr Claudia Tobin
3. Race, Class and Queerness in 20th-Century Migrant British Texts - Dr Shamira Meghani
4. Caryl Churchill & the Politics of Dramaturgy - Dr Zoe Svendsen
5. Ethical Re-turn, Dr Robert Macfarlane
6. Feminist Critical Dystopias - Dr Sarah Dillon

• Dissertation Workshops, Dr Claudia Tobin

Optional Courses

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

• Art Writing, Writing Art, Dr Claudia Tobin
• Phantom Tables, Dr Helen Thaventhiran
• Literature and Ultimate Questions, Dr Michael Hurley

Lent 2022

Optional Courses

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

• Green Ink: Landscape, Literature, and Ecocriticism, Dr Lisa Mullen
• Victorian Work Ethics: Labour in the Literary Imagination, 1830-1914, Dr Marcus Waithe
• A Literary History of Human Rights, Professor Jan-Melissa Schramm

• Resources for Research, Dr Phil Connell

Optional Courses

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

• Literature and Popular Culture, Dr Mina Gorji and Dr Phil Connell
• Now Then, Dr Sarah Haggarty

• Dissertation Workshops, Prof. Pete de Bolla

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
• Social Attitudes to Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English, Dr Laura Wright

Michaelmas Term 2021

Optional Courses

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

• Cultures of the Anthropocene, Dr Robert Macfarlane
• Contemporary Marxist Poetics, Dr Drew Milne
• The Body in Culture, Dr David Hillman

Lent Term 2022

• Dissertation Workshops, Dr Claudia Tobin

Optional Courses

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

• Theatrical Dramaturgies, Dr Zoe Svendsen
• Decolonise: Life and Times of an Idea, Prof Priya Gopal
• Disaster and Postcolonial Ecologies, Dr Shamira Meghani

MEDIEVAL

Michaelmas 2021

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

Lent 2022

• Textual and Related Studies

Optional Courses

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

• Reading Transgressive Sexualities in the Middle Ages - Dr Phil Knox
• Marketing Early English Books, Dr Alex da Costa
• Medieval Books in the Digitial Age, Dr Orietta da Rold

RENAISSANCE

Michaelmas 2021

• Resources for Research, Dr Tania Demetriou, Dr Jason Scott-Warren
• Renaissance Palaeography, Dr Jason Scott-Warren
• Introduction to Textual Studies, Dr Hester Lees-Jeffries
• Core Course - Texts, Context, and Methods

Lent 2022

Optional Courses

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

• Animal and Human in the Renaissance, Prof Raphael Lyne
• Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Dr Subha Mukherji
• Exuvial Renaissance, Dr Jason Scott-Warren