University of Essex, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, Full Time Masters Degrees

Our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies offers supervision for MAD Creative Writing in all fields of staff research interest within this area. Read more

Our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies offers supervision for PhD Film Studies in all areas of our wide-ranging staff research expertise, including an exceptional variety of approaches to global film and media. Read more

Our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies offers supervision for MA by Dissertation in Literature in all fields of staff research interest, which includes a wide range of expertise in different literatures and in varying approaches to literature, covering most aspects from early modern to modern writing in English and a number of other languages. Read more

Theatre and Drama in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies is led by a vibrant group of theatre practitioners and who all work professionally in the theatre industry alongside their University teaching. Read more

Please note MA American Literatures has been temporarily suspended for the academic year 2023-2024. Gain a rich understanding of the variety and interconnections of American writing, exploring major poetic, fictional, non-fictional and dramatic works. Read more

Our challenging, practice-based course offers you a unique approach to the practice of writing, emphasising innovation and experimentation in your work. Read more

Explore the relationship between literature and film in an exceptionally broad array of contemporary and historical contexts, and from a variety of different perspectives. Read more

Explore and make creative connections between film analysis and film practice. Our course has a distinctive focus on international, alternative, and documentary cinemas, while also providing a solid foundation in key elements of film history and theory, including Hollywood. Read more

This course is for students seeking to take their journalism experience to an advanced level and for students who have no background in journalism but are eager to supplement their academic knowledge with journalism skills. Read more

Our department 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. Read more

With the expertise of our scholars and creative practitioners, you'll gain a distinctively unique degree which blends together the highly complementary disciplines of literature and creative writing. Read more

Our MA Modern and Contemporary Literature degree offers a rich and unique perspective on the remarkable literature and culture of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Read more

Develop as a scriptwriter by learning with professional and award-winning dramatists. Read more

Our interdisciplinary MA Theatre Practice provides an opportunity for you to develop advanced knowledge of different processes of theatre-making, international performance traditions, approaches to practice-as-research (PaR), and methods of writing, directing and devising in professional contexts. Read more

Essex is one of the oldest inhabited areas of the British Isles, a landscape shaped by human history. Our MA Wild Writing allows you to explore this landscape and the wilder landscapes of Britain, as well as those across the world, through a combination of modules. Read more