SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS ENGLISH LITERATURE AND CREATIVE WRITING
WELSH WRITING IN ENGLISH MA FT PT
• The Queer Middle Ages: Bodies, Textuality and Objects • The Romantic Sublime MEDIEVAL STUDIES MA FT PT The MA in Medieval Studies draws on the expertise of staff working on both medieval history and medieval language and literature. The MA covers Late Antiquity to the Renaissance, and the British Isles and France to Italy and the Holy Land. Areas of particular staff expertise include; gender, religion and belief, urban and rural cultures, health, medicine and the body, language and multilingualism, and social, spiritual, and cultural identities. You will have the opportunity to become familiar with the medieval heritage of South Wales and the surrounding region, through work with the West Glamorgan Record Office and the library of Hereford Cathedral and through contact with the organisations that are responsible for the preservation of Welsh historical sites, Cadw and the Royal Commission for the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Modules typically include: • Agonies and Ecstasies: Saints and Mystics in the Middle Ages • Directed Reading in Medieval Studies • Enmity and Entanglement: the
CREATIVE WRITING MPhil/PhD FT PT Swansea offers a ground-breaking postgraduate Creative Writing programme led by tutors of world-class stature. The course will provide you with a wide spectrum of skills and a research dialogue across the genres, from the worlds of poetry and long fiction to those of stage drama, screenwriting, creative non-fiction and travel writing. The Creative Writing PhD will involve you in a three-year experience of close mentoring with a writer-teacher distinguished in the genre in which you write. You will also benefit from the rich interchange of knowledge within the Creative Writing PhD workshops, held monthly. ENGLISH LITERATURE MA By Research/MPhil/PhD FT PT Research in English Literature at Swansea is innovative, collaborative, and often interdisciplinary. It involves close mentoring by an expert in your chosen topic or field of studies, and the opportunity to participate in a vibrant research culture of guest lectures, seminars, academic training proposals will be considered on any English Literature related topic, but should generally fall broadly into our staff’s areas of research specialism. PhD programmes are supported by the following University Research Centres: Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research (MEMO) MEMO supports academic staff and postgraduate students who work on historical, linguistic, and literary topics from Late Antiquity to c.1800. Its members have won significant funding from the AHRC, the workshops, and postgraduate student conferences. Research
The MA in Welsh Writing in English is a unique programme taught as part of the work of CREW (The Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales). The modules offer students innovative contexts in which to explore the emergence and development of the English language and literature of Wales, whilst also addressing that literature’s political, social, and gendered dimensions. Students can also select modules from the MA in English Literature and the MA in Creative Writing, as well as literature modules from other MA programmes taught in the College of Arts and Humanities. Modules typically include: • Dissertation • Gender, Genre and the Nation: Women Writing Modern Wales • Practicing Ideas: Advanced Research Skills • Welsh Identities: Literature and Nationhood • Dylan Thomas and the Rise of Welsh Writing in English RESEARCH COURSES Entry Requirements MA By Research/MPhil: Typically a 2:1 honours degree or above in English or Swansea University recognised equivalent qualification. Applicants for PhD study must normally hold an undergraduate degree at 2:1 level and a master’s degree (or Swansea University recognised equivalent qualification). English Language Requirement IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.5 each component) or Swansea University recognised equivalent.
Jews of Medieval England • Introduction to Advanced Medieval Studies • Latin • Medieval Manuscripts
• Medieval Studies Dissertation • Medieval Studies Placement • Public History and Heritage • The Queer Middle Ages: Bodies, Textuality and Objects • Saints and Sinners in Christian Late Antiquity
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