Women, Writing and Gender

Directors: Professor Susan Sellers (scs2@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Professor Gill Plain (gp3@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Other teachers: Dr Sarah Dillon, Professor Lorna Hutson, Dr Tom Jones, Dr Sara Lodge, Mr Phillip Mallett, Dr Susan Manly, Dr Andrew Murphy, Dr Barbara Murray, Dr Jane Stabler, Dr Emma Sutton

Entrance Requirements: a good degree with Honours from a UK university or its equivalent

Programme Duration: one year

Aim of Programme: to introduce students to key issues in the contemporary discussion of gender, through the detailed exploration of theoretical and fictional writing. Debates will be focused around two contrasting areas of concern for twentieth century women writers -- constructions of and writing by 'The New Woman' between 1800 and the First World War, and the impact of conflict on gender and creativity during the First and Second World Wars. The accompanying core module considers broader historical and contemporary debates in feminism and gender studies.

Programme: 120 credits made up of EN5112 Theories and Contexts, EN5115 Women, Writing and Gender 1: Renaissance to Romanticism, EN5116 Women, Writing and Gender 2: Victorian to Contemporary, and EN5100 Literary Research: Skills and Resources. The MLitt concludes with students writing a dissertation of 15,000 words on an agreed topic.