MA English - Literery Studies

The MA in English Literary Studies at Queen’s University Belfast is a diverse, flexible course, providing you with the ability to choose modules that align with your passions. This postgraduate programme offers a comprehensive and intellectually stimulating understanding of English literature from the Renaissance to the present day.Course Content: The course content includes the study of literature from the Renaissance period to the present day. The students will be able to analyse texts in detail and argument the literary processes that shaped them.Key Modules: Modules include Critical Practice; The Business of Books: The History of the Book and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace; Literature and Science; Literature on Screen; Modern American Poetry; Modern Gothic; Renaissance Bodies: Pleasure, Pain, Performance, 1500-1700; Rewriting Myths; Women’s Voices in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Franco-British Perspectives; and the Creative Writing Dissertation.Accreditations: This course does not list specific accreditation.Future Careers: Postgraduate students have an array of opportunities in careers such as the media, marketing, publishing and teaching. The course also prepares students considering an onward study for a PhD.For more information on this course, please visit the official course page.