English Literature

This English Literature PhD programme from the University of Huddersfield allows you to pursue an independent, cutting-edge research project that will make an original contribution to knowledge in your field.

A full-time English Literature English Literature PhD from  University of Huddersfield 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