English (English Literature)

Graduates of English (English Literature) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found employment in various fields such as education, journalism, publishing, translation and editing. Others have been accepted to the best doctoral programs in North America, the UK and Israel.

Key Facts

The faculty members are active participants in international societies and have regularly sent students to prestigious international summer schools and global workshops, where they have many networking opportunities.

The English Department at Hebrew University offers a prestigious graduate program for the study of literature in English, including British, American, Irish, Canadian and South African works. Students in the MA in English program can choose from a number of subspecialties, among them Elizabethan drama, Renaissance and Restoration poetry, the Victorian novel, twentieth-century literature and literary theory. The faculty members approach literary texts from a wide variety of perspectives (formal, thematic and historical) and foster originality and curiosity bolstered by the most rigorous research methodology and writing skills.

The courses offered in the MA program showcase the faculty’s latest research interests. While offerings change from year to year, recent programs have included seminars on the pastoral genre, Irish modernism, posthumanism, eco-criticism, childhood in Victorian culture, 9/11 fiction, the Vietnam War in literature and film, and feminist theory, as well as single-author courses on Milton, Shakespeare, Dickens, Joyce, Nabokov and J. M. Coetzee.

Courses included:

• Spotlight Theory: Posthumanism

• Spotlight Theory: Ecocriticism, the Anthropocene, and Climate Change
• Writer’s Block: From the Romantics to the Digital Age
• Milton’s Major Poetry and Prose
• Reception of Latin PoetryM. Coetzee: Postcolonial Metafiction
• The Study of Character in Shakespeare’s Dramaturgy
• Women’s Education in Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë
• The Vietnam War in American Literature and Film