WELSH WRITING IN ENGLISH MA FT PT
The Centre’s current research themes are: • The Enduring Past
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 Leverhulme Trust, and the Wellcome Trust in recent years. workshops, and postgraduate student conferences. Research
The MA in Welsh Writing in English is a unique programme taught as part of the work of The Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales (CREW). 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 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. Modules typically include: • Dissertation • Dylan Thomas and the Rise of Welsh Writing in English • Gender, Genre and the Nation: Women Writing Modern Wales • Practicing Ideas: Advanced Research Skills • Welsh Identities: Literature and Nationhood 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.
• Nature and Nurture (including Gender, Health, and The Body) • Power, Conflict, and Empire • Space and Place • Texts and their Contexts • Wales, England and the Marches Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales (CREW) Acknowledged as the international leader in this field of literary and cultural study, CREW has developed an extensive programme of teaching and research. The Centre has a vibrant postgraduate research community and benefits from unique resources, including the diaries of Richard Burton, the papers of Raymond Williams, and a recently rediscovered notebook by Dylan Thomas. CREW’s research projects cover the following areas: • Cultural History • Digital Humanities • Gender Studies • Postcolonial Studies • Transatlantic Connections • Visual Culture
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