Master of Philosophy - English Literature

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A Master of Philosophy in English Literature enables students to undertake a substantial independent research project, which should be of a publishable standard. Students submit a thesis of up to 60,000 words for MPhil assessment, demonstrating original research with a significant contribution to the subject area. This is followed by an oral examination of the thesis (a viva voce examination, or viva). Related research groups: the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research (MEMO) the Centre for research into Gender in Culture and Society (GENCAS) Centre for Research into the English literature and language of Wales (CREW) Swansea University offers supervision in most areas of literature from the middle ages to the present. Their particular research strengths include: Welsh writing in English American literature Gender Medieval, renaissance, eighteenth and nineteenth-century writing and culture Modernism and postmodernism Irish poetry Contemporary literature Critical and cultural theory Science Fiction and Ecology/Environmentalism Human-Animal Studies