Postgraduate degrees in English Literature, Department of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster University, UK

Lancaster University welcomes UK and international students to a wide range of postgraduate courses, and the Department of English and Creative Writing is particularly well-placed to offer a friendly, supportive and intellectually stimulating environment for all its postgraduate students. Read more about our writing and research interests, and the wide range of work published in recent years by members of our Creative Writing and our English Literature staff.

Alongside the History Department, the Department of English & Creative Writing is the largest recruiter of postgraduate students in the Humanities at Lancaster. At the present time we have over 50 PhD-level research students on our books (this includes both full and part-time students) and approximately 80-90 students taking our various Masters degree programmes. This means we have the ‘critical mass’ necessary for a buoyant and stimulating postgraduate and research culture.

Professor Terry Eagleton visits Lancaster twice a year, and all postgraduates in this Department are invited to attend the six seminars he gives each year and which are exclusive to students from the Department. In addition, all our PhDs are given the opportunity to have occasional 1-to-1 tutorials with him.

We offer (MA) 'Research Methods' and (PhD) 'Work in Progress' seminars to all campus-based students, which ensures that there is a regular forum at which all our research students can meet, socialise and support one another. The students on the various taught MA courses in English Literature have, of course, opportunities to meet each other on their various modules. All of these things contribute to the formation of a supportive and tight-knit postgraduate community.

Our MA students organise their own conference each summer term. In 2009, 'Intersections' featured papers on topics as various as 'The Groetesque from Frankenstein to Mrs Thatcher' to 'Wild West Films' and 'Japanese Gothic Politics'. Meanwhile, in 2010, 'Para-Sites' featured papers on the Gothic and Shakespeare. 'Shelley's Sirens of Paradise', horror and adjection in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, 'Victorian Angels', 20th-century narratives of physical trauma, the novels of Eliot, the Brontes, Dickens, McInerney, Christie, Chandler, Burgess, Mistry and Douglas Coupland; the music of Bob Dylan and the films of Shane Meadows; the postmodern geography of the city, steampunk romance and the coma as a motif.

Each yearm a selection of these papers are published in the Department's own online journal, 'The Luminary'.



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Postgraduate English Menu Introduction MAs in English Literary Studies: Pathways MA in English Literary Research MA Special Subject PhD English Literature What Our Students Say Open Days Fees and Funding How to Apply See Also: Resources for Current Students	Introduction to Postgraduate English Literature Lancaster University welcomes UK and international students to a wide range of postgraduate courses, and the Department of English and Creative Writing is particularly well-placed to offer a friendly, supportive and intellectually stimulating environment for all its postgraduate students. Read more about our writing and research interests, and the wide range of work published in recent years by members of our Creative Writing and our English Literature staff. Alongside the History Department, the Department of English & Creative Writing is the largest recruiter of postgraduate students in the Humanities at Lancaster. At the present time we have over 50 PhD-level research students on our books (this includes both full and part-time students) and approximately 80-90 students taking our various Masters degree programmes. This means we have the ‘critical mass’ necessary for a buoyant and stimulating postgraduate and research culture. Professor Terry Eagleton visits Lancaster twice a year, and all postgraduates in this Department are invited to attend the six seminars he gives each year and which are exclusive to students from the Department. In addition, all our PhDs are given the opportunity to have occasional 1-to-1 tutorials with him. We offer (MA) 'Research Methods' and (PhD) 'Work in Progress' seminars to all campus-based students, which ensures that there is a regular forum at which all our research students can meet, socialise and support one another. The students on the various taught MA courses in English Literature have, of course, opportunities to meet each other on their various modules. All of these things contribute to the formation of a supportive and tight-knit postgraduate community. Our MA students organise their own conference each summer term. In 2009, 'Intersections' featured papers on topics as various as 'The Groetesque from Frankenstein to Mrs Thatcher' to 'Wild West Films' and 'Japanese Gothic Politics'. Meanwhile, in 2010, 'Para-Sites' featured papers on the Gothic and Shakespeare. 'Shelley's Sirens of Paradise', horror and adjection in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, 'Victorian Angels', 20th-century narratives of physical trauma, the novels of Eliot, the Brontes, Dickens, McInerney, Christie, Chandler, Burgess, Mistry and Douglas Coupland; the music of Bob Dylan and the films of Shane Meadows; the postmodern geography of the city, steampunk romance and the coma as a motif. Each yearm a selection of these papers are published in the Department's own online journal, 'The Luminary'. Contact: Director of Postgraduate Studies Professor Lynne Pearce B208 (5) 92235 l.pearce @lancaster.ac.uk Convenor of MA in English Literary Research Professor Lynne Pearce B208 (5) 92235 l.pearce @lancaster.ac.uk Convenor of MA in in English Literary Studies Dr Andrew Tate B100 x. (5)92223 a.tate@lancaster.ac.uk Postgraduate Secretary Mrs Leila Atkinson B114 (5)93089 l.j.atkinson@lancaster.ac.uk englishpg@lancs.ac.uk Departmental Officer Mrs Anne Stewart-Whalley B109 x. (5)92129 a.stewart-whalley@lancs.ac.uk Head of Department Professor John Schad B99 x. (5)92234 j.schad@lancaster.ac.uk	Postgraduate Resources & Events. Course Handbooks Reading Groups Student Magazines Conference Highlights
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