English Literature
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UK
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University of Huddersfield
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On Campus (Full Time)
3 years-
PhD Studentship
Nov 2025
On Campus (Full Time) Position Details (PhD Program)
A full-time English Literature PhD from University of Huddersfield is a three-year programme of research that culminates in a thesis that should not normally exceed 80,000 words.
Key Facts:
You are expected to work to an approved programme of study, which will be determined through discussion with your supervisors.
During this time, you will develop your skills through attendance at workshops, conferences, seminars, and/or masterclasses. You will develop your critical thinking to a high level, and gain important professional skills to support your subsequent career
Courses include:
Lifewriting and literary biography
Environmental literature: Shakespeare to the present.
Women’s writing and the Renaissance
The Victorian period and its afterlife
Representations of Romani history and experience
Literature of canals, waterways and rivers, the ‘Blue Humanities’
Literatures of ageing
Narrating illness
Contemporary women novelists
Modern and contemporary poetry, in particular Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney
Postmodernism and beyond