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:
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)
Queer Studies Across Disciplines (core module for MA in Queer Studies)
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)
Transforming Worlds: The Interdisciplinary Eighteenth Century (core module for MA in Eighteenth Century Studies, offered by the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies)
Option Modules:
Can the Madwoman Escape the Attic?: Race, Slavery, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Comprehending Nature in the Middle Ages
Cold War Cultures: Literature, Film and Theory in Cold War Europe
Cosmopoetics: Renaissance Science and Poetry
Chaucer, Arabic Learning & the East
England in Europe: Literary Culture: from Alfred the Great Ælfric
Out of Time: Sexuality, Textuality & the Queer Temporal Turn
The Making of Modern Poems: A Workshop
"They've Gotta Have Us": African American Film and Literature after 1960
Wollstonecraft to Jane Austen: Femininity & Literary Culture
Auteures: Gender, Power & Authorship in Film and Literature
Bad Feelings: Negative Affect in Contemporary Literature
Back to Babylon: Queer Theory, Genre, and Hollywood's Golden Age (1930 - 1950)
Fashion and Material Culture in the Eighteenth Century
Fictions of Audacity: Middle English Popular Romance
Four Nations of British Poetry: 1845 - 1940
Healing, Harming, Feeling: Medical Hermeneutics in Early Modern Literature
New Module: 'Prose of the World': Ordinary Life and Extraordinary Subjects in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Empire
Queer Encounters in Global Literatures and Cultures
Reading Dante's Comedy: Text & Context
Representing the City, 1750-1850
New Module: Shakespeare, Queer, and Transgender Theory
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.