The MA in English Literary Studies offers several different pathways each specialising in a period or area of study, and enabling students to craft a degree that suits them:
- English Literary Studies which allows study across a range of periods and subjects
- Early Modern Literature including Shakespeare and the Renaissance
- Romantic and Victorian Literature
- Modern and Contemporary Literary Studies including Film and Media
- Critical-Creative Writing which combines critical approaches to writing with the practice of writing itself, including fiction and poetry
- Literary and Cultural Studies which is taught with the Department of Sociology and explores contemporary debates in cultural theory
