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1 year
02-OCT-23
MA - Master of Arts
Cultural Studies Literature
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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)
£9,810
For this course (per year)
£18,030
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.
Birkbeck, University of London is a university which continues to change lives. In 2023 the institution marks its 200th anniversary. Established in 1823, Birkbeck is a world-class research and teaching institution, well known for being London’s premier evening university. Most classes take place in the evening, and this makes Birkbeck stand out from the crowd. Students have the freedom to use their daytimes however they like – a benefit that has...more
Full time | 1 year | 02-OCT-23
Full time | 1 year | 02-OCT-23
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Full time | 1 year | 02-OCT-23
