Core modules are compulsory for the named MA programme but can also be taken by students from other programmes as an option module.
Module choice forms will be distributed in late August. There may be the opportunity to take modules offered by other departments. Please contact the relevant department for more information. Students from outside English should contact english-enquiries@york.ac.uk if they wish to take a module. You can view the timetable for an individual module via the Timetabling Gateway
Please note that modules may not run if they are undersubscribed, and ballots may need to be held for modules that are oversubscribed. You may change your mind about the modules you choose, before they start.
Core Modules:
Transforming Worlds: The Interdisciplinary Eighteenth Century (core module for MA in Eighteenth Century Studies, offered by the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies)
Critical Approaches to the Creative Industries (core module for MA Literature in the Creative and Cultural Industries)
Debating Global Literary Culture (core module for MA in Global Literature and Culture)
Film/Literature Encounters (core module for MA in Film and Literature)
Framing the Contemporary (core module for MA in Culture and Thought After 1945, offered by the Centre for Modern Studies)
Poetry and Poetics (core module for MA in Poetry and Poetics)
Questioning the Victorians (core module for MA in Victorian Literature & Culture)
Reading Modernity (core module for MA in Modern Contemporary Literature & Culture)
Romantic Texts and Contexts (core module for MA in Literature of the Romantic Period)
Shakespeare (core module for MA in Renaissance Literature 1500-1700)
Option Modules:
Black Is/Black Ain't: Race & Speculation in the American Imaginary
Chaucer, Arabic Learning & the East
Early Film: Emergence of a Narrative Medium
England in Europe: Literary Culture: from Alfred the Great Ælfric
Greening the Renaissance. Theology, Science & the Natural World, 1600 - 1700
Out of Time: Sexuality, Textuality & the Queer Temporal Turn
The Comedy of Difference: Britishness & Otherness
The Translation of the World: Reading the Global Nineteenth Century
Auteures: Gender, Power & Authorship in Film and Literature
Back to Babylon: Queer Theory, Genre, and Hollywood's Golden Age (1930 - 1950)
Can the Madwoman Escape the Attic?: Race, Slavery, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Contemporary Women's Writing: Bodies, Health, Voices
Four Nations of British Poetry: 1845 - 1940
Healing, Harming, Feeling: Medical Hermeneutics in Early Modern Literature
Literature, Medicine & Metropolis 1785 - 1850
Modern Theatre and the Political Imagination
Poetry and the Technologies of Text
Sugar, Subjectivity, Sexuality & Style: The Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen
Voicings and Revoicings: Old English Poetry and its Modern Afterlives
Why Read Literature?: Lessons from the Renaissance (& Beyond)
Writing Worlds: Power, Publishing and Resistance
Please contact the relevant department for more information, and indicate on your Module Choice Form which module you wish to take.