Master of Arts - English

This innovative course combines cutting-edge 21st-century critical approaches with a range of literary and cultural texts and contexts from the 19th century onwards, enabling students to range widely or to specialize in a particular period. It enables students to develop their independence as a researcher, skills as a writer, and originality as a critic in a supportive and structured environment.

This course equips students to think about deeply political questions that have been raised in contemporary theories of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, disability and class in relation to the literary and cultural texts that interest them. Comprising a variety of learning and assessment models, Teesside's MA English furnishes students with the skills necessary for an academic career, and with transferrable skills suited to a range of professional roles.

Teesside University's MA English offers a unique blend of structured courses with individual options, allowing students to personalize their degree to their current interests and future career plans. This course develops students' academic research skills and unique interests through core modules on research skills and methods, a graduate conference and a dissertation.