In the Modern Literature and Culture master’s program, you'll explore 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture from Britain, North America, and the English-speaking world. From Victorian novels to postcolonial life writing, this MA offers diverse topics and the opportunity to study literature across periods.

GEMMA Erasmus Mundus Master’s Degree in Women’s and Gender Studies – is a postgraduate programme that consists of two years of study (120 ECTS) and is taken in 2 out of 7 prestigious European universities that participate in the Consortium.

This degree course aims to train master’s graduates who have a considerable overall cultural knowledge in the humanities and who are able to understand and study specific topics in the field of literary history, philology, the history of language, literary theory, and the history of criticism. It also gives ample space to the study of foreign languages, philologies, and literatures as an indispensable tool for international communication and critical reflection, even in a comparative perspective.

The MLitt in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture explores the key texts, contexts, and theories that have shaped literature and culture from 1900 to the present. The MLitt in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture is an intensive one-year taught program run by the School of English.

The Master of Western Literature offers an in-depth, intercultural, and comparative study of literature from different Western traditions and periods. Specialists in literatures in different languages and from almost a dozen national traditions introduce you to a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives.

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.