English and Creative Writing
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Profile
Research Degrees MA in Gender and Women’s Studies and
Postgraduate Enquiries
MPhil/PhD
English
Postgraduate Secretary – English
MA in English Literary Research (by Research)
MA in Creative Writing
tel: +44 (0)1524 593089
MA in Nineteenth-Century Literary Research
MA in Creative Writing (Distance Learning)
fax: +44 (0)1524 594247
(by Research) e-mail: englishpg@lancaster.ac.uk
MA in Literature, Drama and Society:
Number of Postgraduate Students
Shakespeare to Behn (by Research)
90
Postgraduate Secretary – Creative Writing
MA in Gender, Genre and Cultural Theory tel: +44 (0)1524 594169
(by Research)
Head of Department
fax: +44 (0)1524 594247
e-mail: l.kellett@lancaster.ac.uk
Taught Courses
Professor Simon Bainbridge
MA in Contemporary Literary Studies Website .lancs.ac.uk/fass/english/
MA in Literary and Cultural Studies www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/english/
MA in Romantic and Victorian Literature
www
MA in English Language and Contemporary
Location
Literary Studies
Bowland College
The Department of English and Creative Writing comprises staff
whose wide range of expertise and interests in English literature and
literary theory provide opportunities for research in all periods from
riting
the early modern to the twenty-first century. Integrated within the
Department is one of the longest established creative writing
departments in the UK which forms a stimulating community of
writers across a wide range of literary forms.
eative W
TAUGHT COURSES
MA in Contemporary Literary Studies
Director of Studies: Dr Andrew Tate.
Dr Andrew Tate
Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 months part-time.
Entry Requirements: An upper second class honours degree, or its
Lecturer in Department of English and Creative
equivalent, in English Literature, or a related subject.
Writing
Assessment: Combination of coursework, dissertation and research
methodology portfolio.
English and Cr
Dr Tate’s research focuses on the relationship between literature,
IELTS: 6.5
theology and theory from the nineteenth-century to the
Funding: AHRC - see also page 196.
present. He has published two monographs and many book
Further Information: www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/english
chapters and journal articles in this field and he is currently
working on a study of biblical narrative and the twenty-first
This course has two main aims: to study some of the major
century imagination.
innovations in literature written in English in the second half of the
“The Department of English and Creative Writing has a vibrant
twentieth century and the twenty-first century and, secondly, to
and diverse culture, bringing together critical and creative
examine developments in literary critical theory in the same period.
traditions. Our weekly themed research seminar unites
The relationship between literary and theoretical texts is an essential
colleagues and students from a whole variety of research
element of the course.
groups including Early Modern Literature, Romanticism and the
Centre for Transcultural Writing and Contemporary Critical Compulsory elements
Theory. It gives them the opportunity to debate some of the Research Methodology
vital issues in an ever changing discipline.” Dissertation
“Research students benefit from regular work-in-progress
Optional modules currently include
sessions. In the last year, we have also started running twice-
American Fiction
termly sessions open to the public called Literature Live at
Arts and Social Sciences:
Women’s Autobiography
Lancaster that feature high profile writers such as Jim Crace,
Contemporary British Fiction
Sean O’Brien and Sarah Hall reading and discussing their work.”
The Noir Thriller from 1930 to ‘the Near Future’
“The Department is a truly collaborative place that supports
Film Theory and the Creative Process of Writing for the Screen
individual research but challenges the idea that work in the Arts
Regional Writing/Readerly Homes
and Humanities is an utterly solitary pursuit.”
Locating Contemporary Poetry: The Living Tradition
Contemporary Gothic: Text and Screen
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