Creative and Critical Writing
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UK
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University of Sussex
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On Campus (Full Time)
1 year
Aug 2026
On Campus (Full Time) Position Details (Master's)
Develop your own creative writing, combined with intellectually challenging critical and theoretical ideas with the Creative and Critical Writing degree offered at University of Sussex.
The Creative and Critical Writing MA is driven by the sense that the critical and the creative are necessarily intertwined. It has grown out of longstanding teaching and research interests in:
- creative writing
- psychoanalysis
- cultural materialism
- eco-writing
- postcolonialism
- deconstruction
- feminism
- queer theory.
Careers
- At University of Sussex , you gain skills in critical assessment and written communication while also developing your abilities in problem solving and independent thinking. Creative and Critical Writing graduates often use these skills in careers in:
- publishing, journalism and editing
- libraries, teaching and consultancy
- media, marketing and events management.
- Other graduates have gone on to do further research and work in academia.
Courses include:
- Creativity and Utopia
- Decolonising Modernism: 1850 to the Contemporary
- Psychoanalysis and Class
- Psychoanalysis and Creative Writing
- The Avant-Garde in North America: Creative and Critical Practice
- Voices in the Archives: Writing from History
Research Areas & Fields of Study involved in the position
Position Start Date
Sep 2026