Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture

Postgraduates of the Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture program from University of York go into academia and teaching, arts administration, journalism, broadcasting, public relations, social work, politics, the civil service, and management consultancy. Many alumni have also gone on to become successful novelists, poets and playwrights.

Quick Facts:

• You’ll be introduced to key authors, texts, ideas and critical methods from the period, and construct a distinct, individually chosen program of study from a wide range of options. You’ll develop your research skills and apply these to a substantial piece of independent research.
• Taught and supervised by world-leading scholars in one of the UK’s largest research centres in modern English, you’ll gain a foundation for doctoral research in modern literature, as well as transferable skills for related careers in teaching, publishing, arts management and journalism.
• You’ll engage with the wider research culture of the Department of English and the Centre for Modern Studies, and there will be a diverse schedule of seminars, conferences and reading groups for you to attend. You’ll also be part of the Humanities Research Centre, a vibrant interdisciplinary hub which will enable you to form close social and intellectual bonds over the course of your study.

Career opportunities

• Advertising, marketing, and public relations
• Arts administration
• Civil and diplomatic services
• Film, radio, social media, television, and theatre
• Journalism and broadcasting
• Law
• Government
• Academia
• Publishing
• Teaching

Courses include:

• Reading Modernity

• Postgraduate Life in Practice

• Narrative, Fiction, Theory

• Modern Theatre and the Political Imagination

• Unspeakable Bodies: Theorising Queer and Abject Embodiment

• Sugar, subjectivity, sexuality and style: The fiction of Elizabeth Bowen