18 Part time Master Programs in English Literature in Europe for 2024

Part time Master Programs in English Literature in Europe for 2024Filter
    • Dublin, Ireland

    Full time, Part time

    1 year

    On-Campus

    English

    The M.Phil. in Irish Writing explores Irish writing in English from the late seventeenth century to the present. Amid a diverse and dynamic community of students and scholars, this course will allow you to engage with a wide range of Irish writing in English, from canonical figures such as Maria Edgeworth and W.B. Yeats to contemporary critical debates around gender, sexuality, class, and race.

    • Online United Kingdom

    Full time, Part time

    2 years

    Distance Learning

    English

    Our MA in English Literature introduces you to studying literature, poetry, drama and prose in relation to culture and across three broad themes. The first of these, literary-popular culture, includes exploring genre writing, the bestseller and mass literary production. In revolution and literature, you’ll encounter texts representing revolutionary social or political change. The third theme is global literary cultures where you’ll look at English literature as an international literary form. The structure of this masters degree allows you to select options and specialise throughout the first year in preparation for the more sustained self-directed work of the dissertation in year two.

    • Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Full time, Part time

    1 year

    On-Campus

    English

    This innovative programme gives you the opportunity to explore your literary interests from the medieval period through to the present day. Studying English Literature at the postgraduate level opens up a whole host of vibrant and intellectually stimulating avenues to explore. Our unique programme draws on the wide-ranging research expertise of our staff in order to develop your critical and analytical skills in the field of literary and cultural studies.

    • Lincoln, United Kingdom

    Full time, Part time

    1 year

    On-Campus

    English

    The MA in English Literature is designed around your development as a reader and researcher of literature; as a critical and reflective scholar; and as a communicator and presenter of knowledge. It combines current scholarly investigation with the promotion of transferrable academic and professional skills.

    • London, United Kingdom
    • Online

    Full time, Part time

    1 year

    On-Campus

    English

    Our English Literature: Modern and Contemporary Fictions MA gives you the opportunity to study English literature in a modern university environment while taking advantage of London's rich cultural life. You'll examine literary texts in the wider context of cultural production and relate them to their social, historical and political circumstances. Our team of academic specialists make use of the many nearby museums, galleries and libraries in their teaching. The course will be of particular interest if you wish to prepare for further study at MPhil or PhD level or if you're teaching English and wish to gain a further qualification and investigate current developments in the field. Studying the MA, you'll have the chance to revisit and reinvestigate the texts, critical practices, institutions and periods of English Literature in order to see it in new and exciting ways.

    • London, United Kingdom

    Full time, Part time

    1 year

    On-Campus

    English

    Study different ways of looking at and writing about London with this exciting MA programme. Explore literary London and how writers have responded to the city while studying in London itself. This MA in English Literature offers the opportunity to engage with the rich and complicated literary imaginings of London through the years - from Shakespeare to the Victorians and onwards, to cinematic, postcolonial and documentary constructions of the city.

    • London, United Kingdom

    Full time, Part time

    1 year

    On-Campus

    English

    This degree is a world first. There’s nowhere else you can study black British writing in such an in-depth way – in the actual country where the writing is produced. We trace diasporic and aesthetic routes and draw upon the expertise of literary and drama specialists.

    • Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom

    Full time, Part time

    1 year

    On-Campus

    English

    This course focuses on literature that explores the limits of human experience and contravenes cultural boundaries. You will consider how writing has been a catalyst for social and political change.

    • Guildford, United Kingdom

    Full time, Part time

    On-Campus

    English

    In a world of information overload and 'alternative facts', the ability to read between the lines is more valuable than ever. Studying English literature equips you with the skills to do this.

    • London, United Kingdom

    Full time, Part time

    1 year

    On-Campus

    English

    Taught in collaboration with the British Library, explore early modern literary texts through critical lenses such as race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, religion and nationality, and acquire bespoke tools to study neglected texts and to decide why they matter, what key questions they can answer about the early modern period and our own time, and how they should be edited and re-presented to modern readers.

    • Birmingham, United Kingdom
    • Online

    Full time, Part time

    1 year

    Distance Learning, On-Campus

    English

    This programme offers an unrivalled opportunity to study Shakespeare in the heart of his hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon. Delivered by and taught at The Shakespeare Institute, it develops a critical but appreciative understanding of Shakespeare’s contribution to literary and theatrical history, and the place his works occupy in today’s cultural landscape. It provides you with a rigorous and wide-ranging knowledge of approaches to the study of Shakespeare, with emphasis on criticism, textual studies, the plays in performance, and the history of Shakespeare's reception.

    • London, United Kingdom

    Full time, Part time

    On-Campus

    English

    "Goldsmiths’ MA in Black British Writing is the only one in the country, ergo the only one where our Black British books dominate the syllabus. We rarely appear on university reading lists, other than as token gestures."Bernardine Evaristo MBE (Author, Booker Prize co-Winner 2019)

    • Winchester, United Kingdom

    Full time, Part time

    1 year

    On-Campus

    English

    The MA in English Literature at Winchester is designed to enhance and develop your skills in analysing and reading texts and creating your own arguments as you work on closely focused projects you choose drawn from all the main periods of English Literature. Our course is focussed on four literary periods: Medieval to Renaissance (1473-1660), The Enlightenment (1660-1798), Romanticism and Victorian Literature (1798-1910), and The Modern Period (1910 – the present), and teaches the critical, theoretical and methodological means to understand, to an advanced level, the texts that tell us who we are.

    • Headington, United Kingdom

    Full time, Part time

    12 months

    On-Campus

    English

    Explore writers, forms and genres - and see where your passion for literature will take you. In this course, you’ll take your interest in literature to the next level. You’ll explore everything from Elizabethan lyrics to New York stories. You’ll consider key social issues through a literary lens - like gender, sexuality and mental health. You’ll discover new interests. And you’ll have the freedom to specialise in the area you care about most.

    • Cork, Ireland

    Full time, Part time

    1 year

    Distance Learning

    English

    Our MA in Gaelic Literature (Online), offered by the Department of Modern Irish at UCC, provides students with an in-depth introduction to a distinctive body of literature, giving expression to the many identities of the Gaelic world, and extending over 1200 years, from monastic to modern times.