Master of Arts - English Studies

At Nottingham, we go beyond a love of books.

Here, you will study in the city that was home to Lord Byron, DH Lawrence and Alan Sillitoe. You also have the opportunity to explore a diverse range of writers from further afield and back through time, such as:

Emily Dickinson

Katherine Philips 

Ali Smith

Samuel Beckett

Virginia Woolf

James Kelman

JG Farrell

Zadie Smith

Mulk Raj Anand

Raman Mundair

Jennifer Makumbi

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Leila Fuad Aboulela

You will benefit from access to special collections and the expertise of academics based in the Centre for Regional Literature and Culture, the Institute for Name Studies, the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age, and the Institute for Medieval Research.

We will introduce you to our core subject-areas within English studies and explore the relationship between texts and their historical, cultural and social contexts. Our optional module selection means you can tailor your degree to what interests you the most, or even specialise in several areas at once, including:

Literature 1500 to the Present

Drama and Creative Writing

Medieval Literature and Language

English Language and Applied Linguistics