English Literature

The English Literature course at Bangor University provides you with the opportunity to work over an extended period on a collection of short stories, a novel or a collection of poems under the individual supervision of a writer actively publishing in your field.

If you take this English Literature English Literature at Bangor University Bangor University you will experience:

• One-to-one teaching and supervision by established writers and academics.
• The opportunity to develop your own specific interests, working in the genre and style of your choice.
• The flexibility to study on a full or part-time basis.
• The opportunity to develop an awareness of your own writing and writing processes through combining creative and critical work, preparing you for a future career in writing or as an academic.

Careers

This course prepares you for a career in higher education, as well as in publishing, arts administration, media research, and a range of related careers. This course fully prepares you for a future career as a writer and as an academic.

Students also have the opportunity to follow a range of training programmes offered through the University that significantly enhance their chances of finding work in the field of their choice.

A number of recent or existing creative writing students have successfully published collections of poems or short stories that have arisen from their studies here at Bangor.

Areas of staff research expertise include:

• Arthurian literature
• medieval and early modern women’s writing
• Shakespeare
• Milton
• Romanticism (especially Hazlitt and his contemporaries)
• Victorian literature (especially Dickens and Oscar Wilde)
• Welsh writing in English (especially R.S. Thomas)
• London-Welsh writing at the turn of the twentieth century
• Modernism
• film history and the screenplay
• contemporary poetry
• comparative literature and postcolonialism