Postgraduate Study
MA in Contemporary Literature and Culture
This MA is the first in the country that is designed to allow advanced study of contemporary literatures in all their diversity, including popular genres, the 21st century novel, contemporary innovations, postcolonial literatures, postmodern poetics and more. Apart from the impressive variety of writing studied, the course is committed to a consideration of contemporary culture-from postmodernist self-referentiality to post 9/11 morality-as the context from which all such writing is produced.
MA in English Literature
The MA in English Literature is an exciting development in English studies at Brunel, offering the opportunity to study a wide range of topics and periods, from the early Modern/Renaissance through to the modern and contemporary.
English MPhil/PhD
Brunel's research strengths continue to grow. All staff are research-active, and some of their research interests can be read here. Our active research culture is enhanced by the provision of taught postgraduate degrees, a series of lectures by contemporary writers, and research seminars given by some of the leading academics in their fields. These and other events are organised by Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing, a new research group with aspirations to become a centre of excellence in the study of contemporary and popular literature, fiction, poetry and culture. We now also offer PhDs in Creative Writing, supervised by Fay Weldon and Celia Brayfield.
