This Masters level programme in English provides an exciting opportunity for students to pursue an individual research project of their choice with guidance and individual supervision from staff in the English department.
The staff has a wide range of interests spanning literatures from the seventeenth century to the present. Students may wish to draw upon particular staff expertise in areas such as, for example, the history of the book and reading, political satire, national and cultural identity in the British Isles, Arthurian literature, gender and Romanticism, late-Victorian aesthetics, war writing, American literature, culture and politics, modernism and modernity, English and American contemporary poetry, film and drama. There is also scope for interdisciplinary work across traditional subject boundaries involving cultural history and theory, such as for example, research in visual technologies, psychology and psychoanalysis or gender studies.
Students will receive training in research skills as an integral component of the degree and will join a thriving research community which aims to foster the sharing of knowledge and academic enquiry through staff/student research seminars, academic conferences, and visiting writers and critics.
Although it is always desirable for full-time students to engage solely on their programme of study, the contact hours for this programme make it possible for people to work part time. It is also possible to follow the part-time route without living in or close to Plymouth. Although both routes require day time attendance, a schedule is available prior to the beginning of the programme to allow students to make necessary arrangements.