We offer a bold, forward-thinking curriculum that allows you to study a thousand years of literature in new and progressive ways.
Offering a distinctive approach to a radical breadth of literary texts has made us one of the UK's most respected and exciting English departments.
You'll experiment with writing and learn about its ability to transform the world we live in.
You also explore a wide range of visual material – from painting and architecture to sculpture and dress. Our engaged and passionate tutors will guide you through each year of your degree.
Language Proficiency Test - IELTS/TOEFL/PTE
Researching, Creating and Communicating in the Humanities 1
Stories of Art I: Shaping Art
Thinking Literature 1
Researching, Creating and Communicating in the Humanities 2
Stories of Art II: Who Is Art For?
Thinking Literature 2
Inner Worlds: Literature, 800-1750
Outer Worlds: Literature, 800-1750
Reading Post-Colonial Texts
Science and Literature
The Art of Short Fiction
The Novel
The Politics of Children's Literature
Word & Image
Contemporary Literature and Culture
Humans and Animals
Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain
Lyric Poetry
Modernisms
Picasso to Kahlo: Transatlantic Dialogues
Pop Life: After Modern Art
Romance
Romanticism
Sense and Sexuality: Women and Writing in the Eighteenth Century
Staging the Renaissance: Shakespeare
Victorian Visions: Art, Industry, Modernity
Writing Poetry
Capital Culture: Money, Commerce and Writing
Islam, Literature and the 'West'
Mediterranean Fantasies: Revivals and Utopias, 1919-1939
Posthuman/Premodern
Psychoanalysis and Literature
Special Author: Samuel Beckett
Special Author: Virginia Woolf
Special Author: William Blake
Technologies of Capture: Photography and Nineteenth Century Literature
The Golden State: Art in California, 1945-1981
The Order of Things: The Museum and its Objects
Wollstonecraft and After: Gender, Writing and the Public Sphere
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English and Art History (with a study abroad year) BA (Hons)