University of Huddersfield - English Literature PhD

University of Huddersfield

English Literature PhD

A PhD is the highest academic award for which a student can be registered. This programme allows you to explore and pursue a research project built around a substantial piece of work, which has to show evidence of original contribution to knowledge.

A full-time PhD is a three year programme of research and culminates in the production of a large-scale piece of written work in the form of a research thesis that should not normally exceed 80,000 words.

You are expected to work to an approved programme of study which will be determined through discussion with your supervisors. In addition to work on your thesis, your programme of study might encompass attendance at particular postgraduate courses, conferences, seminars, and masterclasses.

Completing a PhD enables to contribute to knowledge in your chosen field. You will develop your critical thinking to a high level, and gain important professional skills which will support your subsequent career.

Entry Requirements

The normal level of attainment required for entry is:

  • a Master's degree from a UK University or equivalent, in a discipline appropriate to the proposed programme to be followed, or
  • an upper second class honours degree (2:1) from a UK university in a discipline appropriate to that of the proposed programme to be followed, or
  • appropriate research or professional experience at postgraduate level, which has resulted in published work, written reports or other appropriate evidence of accomplishment.
  • IELTS is 7.0 overall with no element lower than 6.5, or equivalent will be considered acceptable

Career Prospects

Career opportunities after completing English Literature MA by Research

  • Content Writer.
  • Creative Writing.
  • Journalism.
  • Mass Communication.
  • Law.
  • MBA.
  • Social Media Marketing.
  • Civil Services

Course Details

Our particular areas of expertise encompass the following:

  • Environmental Literature: Shakespeare to the Present.
  • Renaissance Autobiography
  • Women’s Writing and the Renaissance
  • Romantic Poetry and Prose including: Emotion, War, Autobiography
  • Victorian Period and its after life: Extraordinary Gentlemen and Women
  • Representations of Romani history and experience
  • Literature of canals, waterways and rivers, the ‘Blue Humanities’
  • Literatures of ageing
  • Narrating Illness
  • Contemporary Women Novelists
  • Modern and contemporary poetry specialties including: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney
  • Life Writing
  • Postmodernism and beyond

We also welcome proposals that fall in the general areas of, Contemporary and Modern Literature, Victorian Period, the Long Eighteenth Century, the Renaissance, and Medieval Period.

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