First year
Core modules:
Reading Literature
Poetry through Practice
Becoming a Critic
Fiction through Practice
Optional core modules:
Starting Out: An Introduction to American Literature
Playing Parts
Telling Tales
Transatlantic Gothic
Elective modules:
Reading Film
Telling Tales
Starting Out: An Introduction to American Literature
Playing Parts
Transatlantic Gothic
Film Texts and Contexts I: Film History and Theory
Understanding Culture
Second year
Core modules:
Creative Writing: Poetry and Prose
Optional core modules:
Romanticises, 1780-1830
Age of Shakespeare and Donne
The Romance of Fiction: History and Society in C19 American Literature
Burning Crosses
Victorian Performances
The Detective and American City
From Modernity to Counter-culture: American Literature and Social Criticism in the C20
Alfred Hitchcock’s America
Elective modules:
Aspects of the Novel
Medieval Literature
Twentieth-Century Novels into Films
Youth Subcultures in Fiction, Film and Theory
Seoul Summer School - South Korean Film
Romanticisms, 1780-1830
The Age of Shakespeare and Donne
The Romance of Fiction: History and Society in C19 American Literature
Burning Crosses
Postwar British Fiction and Poetry
Revolution and Restoration
French Cinema
From Modernity to Counter-culture: American Literature and Social Criticism in the C20
Alfred Hitchcock’s America
The Detective and American City
Third year
Core modules:
Creative Writing Portfolio
Either Dissertation in English or Dissertation in EALs
Optional core modules:
Dickens, Collins and Detection
Postcolonial and World Literature in English
Contemporary British Fiction
Shakespeare on Film: Adaptation and Appropriation The Alcohol Question
Aphra Behn and Her Contemporaries
Pregnancy, Childbirth and Maternity in the Early Modern Period
Sex, Scandal and Society: Eighteenth- Century Writing
The Alcohol Question
Postmodernism: Fiction, Film and Theory
Cinematic Modernisms
Writingscapes
Elective modules:
Film Noir
The Contemporary American Graphic Novel
Shakespeare on Film: Adaptation and Appropriation
Aphra Behn and her Restoration Contemporaries
Pregnancy, Childbirth and Maternity in the Early Modern Period
Dickens, Collins and Detection
Postcolonial and World Literature in English
Contemporary British Fiction
High Culture: Drink, Drugs, and the American Dream
Contemporary American Fiction
Shakespearian Stages
Writingscapes
Sex, Scandal and Society: Eighteenth- Century Writing
The Alcohol Question