YEAR 1
Your first year includes a combination of practice-based and lecture/seminar-based modules:

Drama: London, Culture and Performance (15 Credits)
Drama: Power Plays (15 Credits)
Drama: Beyond Acting (30 Credits)
Plus:

English: Poetry (15 Credits)
English: London Global (30 Credits)
English: Literatures in Time Epic and Romance in the Middle Ages (15 Credits)
You can find out more about our modules from Queen Mary’s module directory.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.
YEAR 2
In English you select one 30 credit module from list 1 or 2 t two modules across three subject areas:
List One: Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Chaucer: Gender, Faith, Identity
Renaissance Drama
Renaissance Literary Culture
List Two: Eighteenth-Century, Romanticism, and Nineteenth-Century Studies

Representing London: Writing the Eighteenth-Century City
Romantics and Revolutionaries
Victorian Fictions
List Three: Modern, Contemporary and Postcolonial Studies

Modernism
Postcolonial and Global Literatures
The Long Contemporary
List Four: Special Options (modules subject to change each year):

American Romanticism
Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London
Global Shakespeare
James Baldwin and American Civil Rights
Terror, Trangression and Astonishment; the Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century
The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics 1918–1948
The Thousand and One Nights
In Drama, you will select at least one Drama module from:

Culture, Power and Performance (seminar-based)
Group Practical Project (practice-based)
You then choose your remaining modules from a selection of Drama modules that changes each year. Modules may include:

Action Design
Art and the Climate Crisis
Culture, Power and Performance
London Performance Now
Making Contemporary Theatre
Naturalism
Performance and Visual Culture in South Asia
Race and Racism in Performance
Theatre, Experiment and Revolution
Voice, Gender, Performance
This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

YEAR 3
You select one from:
English Research Dissertation
Practice-based Research Project
Written Research Project
You select the rest of your final-year modules from range of seminar and practice-based options that changes each year.

Modules may include
British Fictions of the 1960s
Creative Writing Prose Fiction
Feminism(s)
Guillotines, Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
Laughing Matters: Comedy and Contemporary Culture
Shakespeare: the Play, the Word and the Book
Victorian Sensation Fiction
Applied Performance
Culture, Performance and Globalisation
Madness and Theatricality
Offstage London
Performance Composition
Showbusiness: Theatre and Capitalism
Theatre and the Supernatural
Verbatim, Testimonial, Tribunal
This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

You will need to book the accommodation after you have been accepted.

You can choose to live on campus or off campus in private accommodation.

• Make a booking online after you have been accepted (in this case please let us know your choice when you apply).
• Register when you arrive - its not possible to reserve a room before arriving. You can arrive a few days before and book it