Masters Degrees in United States Literature (In English)

We offer MPhil and PhD research programmes in English (including American Studies), Comparative Literature or Linguistics for full or part-time study. Read more

The Master’s degree in English Studies offers an advanced study programme focusing on English language, literature and culture for students wishing to acquire both state-of-the-art knowledge and professional skills in the field. Read more

The English division in the Department of Humanities has a number of exciting and interdisciplinary research groups, with particular strengths in the Early Modern period, the Long Eighteenth Century, Modernism, Gender, and Popular Culture. Read more

Our MA English and American Studies postgraduate taught course prepares you for further research in the discipline while also broadening and deepening your critical engagement with English and American literature and culture. 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

Our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies offers supervision for PhD 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

Interdisciplinary in Approach. Dynamic in Teaching. Relevant in Practice. American Studies at The University of Groningen. Read more

Staff supervise research in most areas of English and associated studies, and have expertise in the following areas: theory, modernism and postmodernism, 18th and 19th-century studies, women’s writing, literature and visual arts, Shakespeare and the Renaissance, early modern literature and culture, medieval studies, American literature, postcolonial literature and modern poetry. 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

Study the cultural meanings and associations of the various styles, genres and mediums in which English literature is produced. Read more

Opportunity to develop specialist research interests via nine flexible ‘pathways’ Develop an enhanced understanding of literature and media in their historical… Read more

Our MA in Comparative Literature and Critical Theories is an interdisciplinary, transnational programme. Read more

This pathway of the MA Literary Studies aims to enhance your knowledge and understanding of the literature that has sought to define or has emerged from 'America'. Read more