PhD English

We welcome PhD proposals in all areas from Medieval literature to literature of the 2020s. The Department’s particular areas of expertise include: Contemporary poetry Crime fiction Life writing Horror Nature writing Black diaspora literature Postcolonial fiction Women’s writing Children’s literature Literary geography and ecocriticism Queer writing Memory and post-memory Welsh writing in English Literatures of surveillance Irish writing Gothic literature and ghost stories Psychoanalysis Late Medieval secular literature Contemporary medievalism Romanticism Victorian literature Modernism and late modernism Disability in literature Postmodernism. A PhD in Literary Studies is awarded upon satisfactory completion of a thesis of 80-100,000 words followed by a viva voce examination.

IELTS 7.5 with minimum 7.5 in each component

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• Aberystwyth, United Kingdom