Course Overview

The MA in English Literary Studies is the Department's main taught MA in English Literature. We offer five different pathways specialising in a period or area of study:

  • Contemporary Literary Studies including Film and Media
  • Early Modern Literature including Shakespeare and the Renaissance
  • English Literary Studies. This is the most flexible pathway allowing study across a range of periods and subjects
  • Literary and Cultural Studies which is taught with LICA and the Department of Sociology and explores contemporary debates in cultural theory
  • Romantic and Victorian Literature which allows a non-rigid approach to genre boundaries

All pathways have core modules with a wide range of optional modules to choose from, but for generalists English Literary Studies also allows you to take modules from any of the other pathways, and approach literature through a range of different genres and forms. Our aim is to ensure that all of our students can craft a pathway that suits them.

For modular information please visit our departmental page www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/english