English Literature MA

Develop your critical voice as you select your own path through a rich engagement with literature from the medieval to the contemporary. You will be guided throughout by a focus on the themes of world, spirit, body and place. This quartet of foundational critical terms reflects major Lancaster research strengths and will provide you with a gateway to literary study of all kinds, both established and experimental.

Study opportunity at University of Padua, Italy

Each year, two students on Lancaster’s MA English Literature have the opportunity to gain a second master’s degree at the ancient University of Padua in Italy.

After completing your master’s at Lancaster, you would spend the following year in Italy with no additional tuition fee (though students will need to cover the cost of their accommodation and travel). You would select modules from Padua’s MA in Mobility Humanities in the Department of Historical Sciences. This programme is taught in English. On successful completion of this programme, you would be awarded a master's degree from the University of Padua.

Further information about the programme, including the selection process, will be provided during your first semester at Lancaster.