MPhil in English - Modern and Contemporary

MPhil, normally of two years duration. The first year comprises the taught components of an MLitt, and the second a thesis of no more than 40,000 words. Applicants who already hold a suitable Masters or MLitt degree may be eligible for admittance directly to the second year of an MPhil degree. The Modern and Contemporary research group focuses on literature and culture from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st. The group's wide-ranging expertise runs from the fin de siècle to contemporary poetry, with particular strengths in the areas of Modernism, including T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf; women’s writing and gender studies; crime fiction; contemporary critical theory; modern and contemporary poetry; British and American theatre; Scottish literature; science fiction and fantasy; war writing; literature of the 1940s; British cinema and music.

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