
Overview
At American Literatures at the University of Essex , we challenge the study of the United States as a territorially bound space by embracing an expanded conception of ‘America’, which explores the richness of U.S. and Caribbean literatures in dialogue. This allows you to formulate sophisticated analyses of the role of space and place in the production of American writing and identities.
Your future
A good literature degree opens many doors.
We offer supervision for PhD, MPhil and MA by dissertation in different literatures and various approaches to literature, covering most aspects of early modern and modern writing in English, plus a number of other languages.
Our University is one of only 11 AHRC-accredited Doctoral Training Centres in the UK. This means that we offer funded PhD studentships which also provide a range of research and training opportunities.
A number of our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies graduates have gone on to undertake successful careers as writers, and others are now established as scholars, university lecturers, teachers, publishers, publishers’ editors, journalists, arts administrators, theatre artistic directors, drama advisers, and translators.
We work with our Employability and Careers Centre to help you find out about further work experience, internships, placements, and voluntary opportunities.
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Visit official programme websiteProgramme Structure
Courses include:
United States Nationalism and Regionalism
Dissertation Preparation: Postgraduate Research and Writing Skills
Continental Crossings: Caribbean and US Literature and Culture
The New Nature Writing
Writing the Novel
Memory Maps: Practices in Psychogeography
Oulipian Practice
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Duration
- Full-time
- 12 months
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Visit official programme websiteAcademic requirements
English requirements
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General requirements
- A 2.2 degree in Creative Writing, Theatre/Drama Studies, Literature, Film and Media Studies, Modern Languages , Art History, Music, Philosophy, History, American Studies, Performance studies, Journalism, Law, Politics and Sociology.
- You may be asked to provide a piece of creative writing if you do not hold a degree in a relevant field.
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19740 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 19740 GBP per year during 12 months. -
National
9200 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 9200 GBP per year during 12 months.
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