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MA in Gender, Genre and Cultural Theory (by
Research)
Director of Studies: Dr Andrew Tate.
Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 months part-time.
Entry Requirements: An upper second class honours degree, or its
equivalent, in English Literature, or a related subject.
Assessment: Combination of coursework, research methodology
portfolio and dissertation.
IELTS: 6.5
Funding: AHRC - see also page 196.
Further Information: www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/english
This MA provides the opportunity to work on a topic of your .lancs.ac.uk/fass/english/
choice which explores the interface between gender, writing in a
chosen genre, and cultural theory. You will be assigned to work
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with a personal supervisor on the theories and approaches to your
topic, and will be provided with training in research methods and
techniques. The study may be based in a single period or may
CREATIVE WRITING RESEARCH DEGREES
compare writing across periods. Staff have specialist interests in the
The Department welcomes applications for PhD and MPhil degrees.
gender politics of autobiography, children’s literature, drama,
We are very interested to hear from suitably qualified writers with
fantasy, prose fiction, film, gothic, postcolonial literatures, poetry
original ideas for research.
and romance.
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MPhil/PhD
Applications in the following areas are particularly welcome:
writing and sexuality/class/race; performance and performativity;
Entry Requirements: An MA, or its equivalent; previous publications
post-colonial women’s writing; early modern women’s writing;
of high quality.
fashion, dress and the clothed body; nineteenth-century British and
Assessment: By thesis which should be a sustained and fully achieved
eative W
American women’s writing; representing women and the Irish
piece of creative writing – a complete novel, script, collection of
troubles.
poems or collection of short fiction. It should achieve publishable
standard and should be accompanied by a substantial piece of
reflective or critical writing, suitably referenced.
IELTS: 6.5
Funding: AHRC and University Studentships - see also page
196.
Further Information www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/english
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There is a thriving constituency of Creative Writing MPhil/PhD
students working across a range of literary genres and research
projects. Former doctoral students include Alison MacLoed, Andrew
Miller and Siri Reynolds whose doctoral novels The Changeling
(Macmillan), Ingenious Pain (Sceptre), House of Rooms (Polygon)
were published to wide acclaim.
Professor Terry Eagleton
Poems from Nigel McLoughlin’s doctoral study form the basis of his
recently published Bluechrome Press Collection, Blood, and
Raymond Robinson’s novel, Electricity, has been published by
Professor Eagleton has written around fifty books and is
Picador. George Green’s novel, Hound, has been published by
himself the subject of at least two monographs. He is one of
Bantam Press.
the world’s leading literary critics and, according to The
Independent in 2007, ‘the man who succeeded F. R. Leavis as
Britain’s most influential academic critic.’ Prior to his move to
Lancaster, Terry Eagleton was John Edward Taylor Professor of
English Literature at the University of Manchester (2001-2008)
Arts and Social Sciences:
and before that Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature
at the University of Oxford (1992-2001). Professor Eagleton’s
post at Lancaster includes giving public lectures and offering
postgraduate seminars. He also offers one-to-one tutorials for
PhD students working in any of his areas of expertise.
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