Overview

Key features

At the University of Reading studying English Literature will deploy our distinctive research strengths, and our world-leading literary collections, to produce a degree that embodies the best of contemporary, critical and archival work.

Education

The department’s research widely supports all the teaching on the MA, from Medieval to Contemporary Literature, including postcolonial and world literatures and creative writing.
You have the freedom to choose your own pathway through bespoke strands, with careful advice at every stage and unique interdisciplinary modules to choose from.
You will receive detailed one-to-one guidance on your dissertation, which might be a creative writing portfolio, an edition of a Beckett manuscript, a fin de siècle project oriented around our Wilde collections, or a theoretically informed reading of diasporic fiction.

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Programme Structure

Courses include:

Women's Rights, Women's Writing
Modern and Contemporary Literature
Opening Up Medieval English Texts
Contemporary Literature & Ethnicity
Modern Literary Feminisms

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Duration

Full-time
- 12 months
Part-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-02-09 00:00:00

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Starting 2027-09-29 00:00:00
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- Apply before 2027-07-01 00:00:00 , International

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Language

English

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69

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IELTS

6.5

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Credits

180 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Reading, United Kingdom

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

GPA

Upper Second Class

English requirements

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69

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General requirements

Normally a good undergraduate honours degree (2:1 or above), or equivalent from a university outside the UK, in an appropriate subject.

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Tuition Fees

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26450 GBP / year

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12050 GBP / year

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903 - 1382 GBP / month

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