English Literature MPhil, PhD

Program Overview

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Overview

Join our thriving School with an energetic, creative and well-resourced research culture. Throughout your English Literature MPhil/PhD, you'll benefit from expert supervision.

Our specialist areas of literature range in periods from the medieval to the contemporary. We normally offer supervision in the following areas:

Medieval and Early Modern literature

18th-century and Romantic

Victorian literature

Modernism

Postcolonial and Black Atlantic literature

American literature

children’s literature

medical humanities

poetry criticism

scholarly editing and animating text

theatre and performance

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Program Outline

Your development

You'll have plenty of opportunities to network with fellow students and staff and become part of our School research community. These include:

our Postgraduate Speaker Series

lunchtime Postgraduate Forum seminars

an annual postgraduate conference organised by our postgraduate students

You can also take part in a range of university and regional research groups and centres.

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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) researcher development programme

Each faculty offers a researcher development programme for its postgraduate research students. We have designed your programme to help you:

perform better as a researcher

boost your career prospects

broaden your impact

Through workshops and activities, it will build your transferable skills and increase your confidence.

You’ll cover:

techniques for effective research

methods for better collaborative working

essential professional standards and requirements

Your researcher development programme is flexible. You can adapt it to meet your changing needs as you progress through your doctorate.

Find out more about the Researcher Education and Development programme

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Doctoral training and partnerships

There are opportunities to undertake your PhD at Newcastle within a:

Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT)

Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP)

Being part of a CDT or DTP has many benefits:

they combine research expertise and training of a number of leading universities, academic schools and academics.

you’ll study alongside a cohort of other PhD students

they’re often interdisciplinary

your PhD may be funded

Find out more about doctoral training and partnerships

If there are currently opportunities available in your subject area you’ll find them when you search for funding in the fees and funding section on this course.

The following centres/partnerships below may have PhD opportunities available in your subject area in the future:

ESRC Northern Ireland/North East (NINE) Doctoral Training Partnership

Northern Bridge Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership