First year modules
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| Reading English |
| A Literary Genre: The Novel |
| Variation and Change in the English Language |
Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
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Option Subject (modules from one subject)
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Second year modules
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Chaucer and the English Tradition
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| Renaissance Literature |
The Study Of Language: Old English
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| Medieval Literatures |
| From Satire to Sensibility: Literature 1660-1789 |
Concepts in Criticism
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Third year modules
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| Compulsory Dissertation |
| Romantics and Victorians: Literature 1789-1870 |
| Victorian to Modern: Literature 1870-1945 |
| Post War to Postmodern: Literature 1945-Present Day |
Special Subjects (Year 3, Semester 1)
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Coming of Age in America: Representations of Adolescence
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Church and State in Medieval Literature
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The Forms of Modern Poetry
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Love and Death: The Novel in Nineteenth-century Russia and France
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Contemporary Women's Writing: 1960-Present Day
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Gothic: from Otranto to Wuthering Heights
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Before Homosexuality? Representing Same-sex Desire
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Representing the Holocaust
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Crime and Literature 1600-1750
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New York Stories: Tales of the City
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Filming the Middle Ages
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Advanced Old English Language
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Postcolonial Afghanistan: From the Great Game to the War on Terror
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Literature and Culture of the 1890s
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Libertine Literature 1660-1690
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Understanding Screenplays
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Narrating the Nation
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Visions of Hell: The Fiction of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark
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Victorian Outsiders: Englishness and Jewishness in the Nineteenth-century Novel
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Tragedy
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| B-Films and Serials* |
Science Fiction Cinema*
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Special Subjects (Year 3, Semester 2)
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The Thatcher Factor: the 1980s in Literature
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| Autobiography and American Literature (creative writing) |
| Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Renaissance Literature |
| Slang and the www |
| Late Victorian Gothic: Texts and Context |
| Modern Monsters: Contemporary American Texts |
American Masculinities
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Classical and Post-Classical Latin
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Medicine and Literature in the Nineteenth Century
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George Eliot
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| Jane Austen: the Novels, their Contexts and Adaptations |
Detective Fiction from Sherlock Holmes to the Second World War
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| Harem and Hijab: Writing about Women in Islam 1716- Present (creative writing) |
Historical Fiction
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| The Myth of Mars and Venus Revisited: Language and Gender |
Authoring and Publishing Literature from Books to E-books
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Kingdoms of Ice and Snow: Exploration in Writing and Film
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Transcultural Writing and the Publishing Industry
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English and Education
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On the Road Again: The Canterbury Tales after Chaucer
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Screen Gothic
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British Popular Culture since 1945
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The Golden Age of French Cinema, 1930-1955
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