380 Master's in Literature in Europe

The English Literature course at University of Bristol aims to deepen your passion for literature while developing the rigorous specialist skills essential to postgraduate-level research.

This English Literature programme from Newcastle University allows you to work around your own research interests. It will prepare you for further research within and beyond academia.

The Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture programme from University of York offers you an intensive and exciting survey of the literary culture of the 20th and 21st centuries. 

The Literature degree from University of Essex offers a distinctively comparative approach to the study of literature; at Essex you don't just study English literature, you study world literature in English. You explore literature across time, geography, and genre, combining scholarly research with innovative, practical ways of engaging with texts.

The Comparative Literature programme of the University of Glasgow offers interdisciplinary study across linguistic cultures as well as academic fields. Benefitting from a strong and diverse School of Modern Languages and Cultures, you will be able to take courses in the comparative study of literatures, film, visual arts, or societies of two or more language areas

This English Literature: Modern and Contemporary Fictions degree offered at the University of Westminster gives you the opportunity to study English literature in a modern university environment, while taking advantage of London's rich cultural life. The University of Westminster and its courses are located in London.

In the Master's specialisation Literary Studies you will learn to develop new insights that will contribute to a better understanding of literary texts and how they function within society.

Through this English Literature course from Lancaster University you will be guided throughout by a focus on the themes of world, spirit, body and place.

Explore postcolonialism and world literature with English Literary Studies (Postcolonial and World Literatures) MA programme at the University of Southampton.

Immerse yourself in the world of Shakespeare in his beautiful hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon with the Shakespeare programme at University of Birmingham.

With this  English Literary Studies course from University of Southampton you’ll get the chance to carry out advanced-level research and independent critical thinking, and to make effective use of archives, manuscripts, and research libraries.

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

Throughout this English Literature study delivered by the  University of Plymouth you'll explore the ever-evolving world of literature and culture through an exciting array of thematic modules, spanning a broad range of periods from the early modern to the present.

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

The unique, two-year Children's Literature, Media and Culture programme at the University of Glasgow provides an interdisciplinary study of the interaction between children, texts and media, along with the opportunity to study and live in at least two European countries.

The European Languages and Cultures master's programme at the University of Tartu trains students to be cultural mediators (translators, administrators, editors, etc.) by providing knowledge and skills in a modern or classical language and culture. You can specialise in either English, French, German, Scandinavian or Spanish language and literature or Russian and Slavic philology.

The Romanian Language, Literature and Culture programme of Eötvös Loránd University ensures a good knowledge of the Romanian language and literature.

The MA in English (English Language) from the University of Malta is a mainly taught postgraduate programme that will help you bring together the theoretical and practical aspects of the English language, especially and generally in applied contexts related to the Maltese linguistics environment. 

Pursue your passion for English literature, inspired by experts at the forefront of world-leading research.

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.