Program Overview

This degree allows you to explore the great variety of literature in English from across the globe within a programme that covers traditional genres and literary periods.

Our English Literature degree will enable you to examine in greater detail authors and genres that you already know (from tragedy to Gothic, from Shakespeare and Dickens to Tagore). But it will also introduce you to aspects of literary studies that you may not know so well, from Commonwealth literature to poetry and they will help you to develop your own literary enthusiasms.

We place a strong emphasis on small-group learning within a friendly and supportive environment. In your first and second years, you will have a mix of lectures and seminars We believe that the study of English Literature is a discursive process in which we learn by sharing our ideas. For this reason, all our third year teaching takes place in seminars taught by research-active experts in the field.