YEAR 1
You will take the following modules (all compulsory)

Literatures in Time: Epic and Romance in the Middle Ages (15 Credits)
London Global (30 Credits)
Poetry (15 Credits)
Reading, Theory and Interpretation (30 Credits)
Shakespeare (15 Credits)
Please note that all modules are subject to change.

YEAR 2
You will take one 30 credit module from each of the three period specific lists:

List One: Medieval and Early-Modern Studies

Chaucer: Gender, Faith, Identity
Renaissance Drama
Renaissance Literary Culture
List Two: Eighteenth-Century Studies, Romanticism, 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
You also choose one or two modules from a range of special options that changes each year. Modules may include

American Romanticism
Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London
Global Shakespeare
James Baldwin and American Civil Rights
Terror, Transgression and Astonishment: the Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century
The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics 1918 - 1948
The Thousand and One Nights
This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

YEAR 3
You will take:
English Research Dissertation (compulsory)
You choose the rest of your final-year modules from a range of options that changes each year, taking one 30 credit module and one 15 credit module in each semester. Modules may include:

All in the Mind: Literature and Consciousness
British Fictions of the 1960s
Contemporary Poetry
Creative Writing Prose Fiction
Feminism(s)
Guillotines, Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
Heroes and Outlaws in History and Fiction from 1100 to 1600
Jane Austen: Regency Novelist
Laughing Matters: Comedy and Contemporary Culture
Reading Late Victorian Literature
Reading William Blake
Romantic Women Writers
Victorian Sensation Fiction
Shakespeare: the play, the word and the book
Teaching Trans Lives
Time, Narrative and Culture
Writing Black and Asian Britain
Writing Empire: the Eighteenth Century
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