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410 Master's degrees in Literature in Europe

Literature, Visual Culture and Film Studies
Engage in a broadly interdisciplinary study of the relationships between literature, visual culture, and film in contemporary and historical contexts. Gain cutting-edge theoretical insights into intermedial aesthetics and into the philosophy of literature, art, and film. Students are provided with critical tools for the cultural analysis of contemporary audiovisual, image, and text-based media.

European, American and Postcolonial Language and Literature
This M.A. in European, American and Postcolonial Language and Literature degree at Ca' Foscari University of Venice is a highly specialised programme concentrating on a single language-literature-culture, selected from seven available pathways.

Audiovisual and Literary Translation
The Audiovisual and Literary Translation degree from University of Essex will allow you to further specialise in literature and literary translation, audiovisual translation, and general translation.

Shakespeare (Online)
Throughout the Shakespeare (Online) course from University of Birmingham you'll explore different approaches to Shakespeare based on the latest research of the Shakespeare experts.

English Literature
This English Literature MA programme from the University of Nottingham is the course for you if you love nothing more than a good book or perhaps you're fascinated by the inner workings of your favourite texts.

Writing Popular Fiction
Within this Writing Popular Fiction MA degree from Edinburgh Napier University you’ll combine online and on-campus learning between two novel-worthy settings – Edinburgh and Pennsylvania.

Modern and Contemporary Writing (Part time)
This Modern and Contemporary Writing (Part time) course from the University of East Anglia combines criticism and creativity. It’s a unique opportunity to study contemporary literature where it is being made and where modernism is alive in the present.

English Literary Studies (Twentieth Century and Contemporary)
Explore 20th century and contemporary English literature with English Literary Studies (Twentieth Century and Contemporary) MA course offered at the University of Southampton.

English - Literary Studies
The English - Literary Studies MA programme from the Queen's University Belfast offers a number of special features. Some modules engage with contemporary art and culture through field work, while other modules use connections to the History subject area and to the archives in Armagh, Belfast and Trinity College Dublin.

Medieval Literatures and Languages
This Medieval Literatures and Languages programme from University of York study the whole range of medieval English literature — a dynamic, multilingual literary culture in which English interacted with many other languages and literatures.

English Literary Studies (Twentieth Century and Contemporary) - Pre-Master's Programme (PMP)
This one-year (2-semester) English Literary Studies (Twentieth Century and Contemporary) - Pre-Master's Programme (PMP) from OnCampus Southampton offers successful students guaranteed progression to the University of Southampton.

Literatures of Engagement
The Literatures of Engagement programme from Maynooth University addresses this sense of crisis by recognising the significant role that literature and the critical discourses associated with the study of literature, have in both reproducing and analysing cultural values and ideologies, but also in articulating responses and resistance to those.

American Studies
The American Studies programme of the University of Glasgow is at the forefront of the study of American society and culture, with a dedicated research centre: the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies.

English Literature with Black Humanities
This unique interdisciplinary English Literature with Black Humanities coursee from University of Bristol offers you the opportunity to study English Literature and Black Humanities, deepening your passion for literature through an engagement with the global histories, philosophies, languages and arts of people of African descent.

Creative Writing (Distance Learning)
This Creative Writing (Distance Learning) from Teesside University is your opportunity to develop your writing practice at the times that work for you, wherever you are in the world.

Master's by Research
The Master's by Research MA/MSc programme from De Montfort University emphasises independent study over taught instruction. It is often used as a training course in advanced research work and lays the foundation towards doing a PhD.

Comparative Literature and Critical Theories
Through the Comparative Literature and Critical Theories degree from University of Birmingham you'll discover literature without borders

Publishing Studies
The Publishing Studies MRes from University of Stirling helps you to develop an analytical and research-driven approach towards publishing.

Contemporary Literature and Culture - Pre-Master's Programme
This one-year Contemporary Literature and Culture - Pre-Master's Programme from OnCampus Loughborough offers successful students guaranteed progression to Loughborough University.

Creative Practice - Pre-Master's Programme
This one-year (2-semester) programme offers successful students guaranteed progression to a postgraduate degree at a top UK university. Learn more at the Creative Practice - Pre-Master's Programme at OnCampus London from Goldsmiths, University of London.