Full time
1 year
30-SEP-24
MA - Master of Arts
Cultural Studies Literature
Taught
COURSE OVERVIEW
Our MA Contemporary Literature and Culture (2000-present) offers you the chance to specialise in twenty-first-century literature and culture, as well as exposing you to the most important literary and theoretical developments of the last few decades.
Informed by our world-class research in contemporary literary and cultural studies, on this course you will examine:
the effects of new technologies on narrative form
the aesthetic, spatial and political coordinates of writing produced in an increasingly networked and globalised world
literature’s role among a vibrant and diverse range of digital, visual and multimedia texts.
You will develop your expertise in key topics, such as: migrants’ narratives and refugee film-making; precarity fiction and emergent pandemic storytelling; anti-gentrification zines and the low-fi aesthetics of resistance; nonhuman forms of agency; post-gender feminism; the relationship of genres such as science fiction, horror and the fantastic to literary fiction; trans aesthetics in film and TV; African American poetry and performance; contemporary black aesthetics.
This MA also gives you the opportunity to pursue your own interests, whether they lie in contemporary poetics; in African American culture, or indigenous futurisms; in literary and cultural responses to environmental crisis; in the changing forms of the book in a digital age; or in historical approaches to issues like nation, race, gender and sexuality.
For this course (per year)
£10,800
For this course (per year)
£19,830
Our standard postgraduate entry requirement is a second-class honours degree (2:2 or above) from a UK university, or an equivalent international qualification. Your first degree does not have to be in English Literature.