Postgraduate Study
Postgraduate students are an integral part of this research-intensive school. At any one time there is a community of more than 80 students reading for either MLitt or PhD degrees in English. PhD students' work covers the broadest ranges within English, American and Commonwealth literature, while taught MLitt degrees include Creative Writing, Medieval English, Romantic/Victorian Studies, Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Culture, and Women, Writing and Gender. A flexible MLitt in English Studies was introduced in 2011, and an MLitt in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture available from September 2012.
The hub of the postgraduate community is 66 North Street, an early nineteenth-century building entirely given over to English postgraduates. It offers benchrooms of networked computers for all postgraduates (MLitt and PhD) and shared office-space for more senior PhD students as well as a common room, kitchen and lovely private garden, all within five minutes' walk of both the School and the university library.
All research postgraduates are associate members of at least one of the School's four research groups: