English Studies

Why study English Studies at Dundee?

This is one of over ten degree pathways offered in the Masters Programme in Humanities with Specialisation. Students on the Programme take some common modules, and are able to draw upon the research culture of the School of Humanities.

This twelve month course will:

• provide training in literary and cultural research as a firm basis for proceeding to doctoral work
• provide a taught postgraduate programme to suit individual student research interests and research needs
• enable completion of a dissertation of 18,000 words: an independent piece of work based on primary texts and sources

We provide expert supervision across a range of specialist areas, from Anglo-Saxon to the contemporary, with a particular specialism in Romantic to Contemporary Literature, and the intersections of literature, film and visual culture, and creative writing.

Research Excellence

The School of Humanities at Dundee is a centre of research excellence. Postgraduate students join a vigorous research culture led by world-leading scholars.

In the most recent RAE, a full 90% of English's research publications were rated as of international excellence in terms of their 'originality, significance and rigour' and 45% of our research output was rated in the two very highest categories of 'international excellence'.

Postgraduate Culture

The English Programme at Dundee offers a lively postgraduate culture, including a regular postgraduate forum, a postgraduate website, visiting speakers and an annual postgraduate conference.

The English department is also home to an annual Literary Festival which regularly attracts high profile writers to Dundee.

"The English department at the University of Dundee is worth recommending for a number of reasons ... I greatly enjoyed the fact that I was allowed a free hand with my own research; supervision being present and supportive, but not controlling or stifling in the least."
Samira Nadkarni, MLitt English Studies

As well as being a research preparation degree for students who intend to proceed to a PhD, this course also caters directly for students who wish to take their first degree to a higher level of advanced study, for either career development or merely general interest.

• All Humanities PG courses