English / English and Film Studies

Why study English at Dundee?

We are a medium-sized team with an atmosphere of friendly informality. We work hard to make students feel at home so that you can achieve your very best. Our teaching is varied and lively, and we've recently received the highest ratings for Teaching Quality Assessment.

Dundee is both traditional and innovative. We develop our courses with a consciousness of today's student needs and preferences, while reflecting our commitment to the cutting-edge ideas in our field. We not only teach the traditional topics of English Literature but also the literatures of America (North and South), of Scotland, and of many other parts of the English-speaking world as well as looking at digital poetry and graphic novels.

Exciting new developments include the growth of Film Studies, with two joint Honours degrees possible, and the introduction of a new joint Honours degree in English and Creative Writing.

Film Studies

Two joint degrees are offered: MA Film Studies and English, and MA Film Studies and Philosophy.

The Film Studies team has strong links with the Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre, Dundee's unique cinema and art gallery, and helps organise film programmes which bring together students and the general community.

Creative Writing

A new joint Honours degree is now available: MA English and Creative Writing.The English department is home to the University's Professor of Creative Writing, Kirsty Gunn, a critically acclaimed award-winning novelist. She teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and also organises readings by visiting novelists and poets.

Who should study English?

Do you enjoy reading stimulating and worthwhile books? Then come and study literature: four years is a long time to study something you don't enjoy. English is both a challenging and engaging subject, which gives great opportunities to debate issues in stimulating ways.

English offers the opportunity to develop your own enthusiasms within a structured programme which will teach you to think about a range of personal, cultural and historical topics.

"The course offers so much. It caters to all sorts of interests, from Shakespeare to Steinbeck, Chaucer to Chandler and all sorts in between. It also opens you up to all new kinds of interests and makes you view histories and cultures in totally new ways."
Malcolm Triggs, current English student

Erasmus Exchanges

English also offers Erasmus exchanges with three European Universities: Salzburg, Freiburg and Thessaloniki.

JOOT Theatre Company

The JOOT Theatre Company is a drama group run by Dr Jodi-Anne George which specialises in medieval and early modern theatre. The company is largely comprised of current English students and was invited to perform at the Sorbonne in Paris in 2008.

Departmental activities

The Department itself is home to an annual Literary Festival which regularly attracts high profile writers to Dundee. There are also Literary Salons, as well as a Comic Art Forum, featuring talks by comic artists and writers, and an annual Comics Conference. In addition, there is a lively undergraduate Literature and Film Society.

• MA English
• MA English and American Studies
• MA English and Creative Writing
• MA English and European Studies
• MA English and History
• MA English and Mathematics
• MA English and Philosophy
• MA English and Politics
• MA English and Psychology

• MA English with French
• MA English with German
• MA English with Spanish

• MA Film Studies and English
• MA Film Studies and Philosophy