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The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales is both one of the most accessible and also one of the most challenging works of medieval literature. It offers a rich and varied story collection, within […]

Shakespeare's Comedies: Identity and Illusion

This course explores the range of Shakespeare's writing of comedy from the early romantic comedies, through the "mature" and "problem" comedies, to the tragicomic romance of the last plays. The […]

Modern Poetry: 1922-1927

This course examines key publications from the golden age of High Modernist poetry. We will look at individual collections by key British and American poets of the time. Though scanning […]

Identity and Self in Contemporary German Literature

This option introduces students to literary renegotiations of questions of identity and self in contemporary German-language novels. Students will closely study two selected novels over four weeks respectively. Each novel […]

Global Women Filmmakers

The course focuses on rethinking the notion of film auteurism by engaging with the work of a number of global women filmmakers. We will look at how contexts of production […]

Gender and Culture

Gender concerns us all. It is also through gender, and its cultural representations, that we can develop critical thinking, re-evaluate our own views, and learn to see beyond stereotypes. This […]

Contemporary Postcolonial Writing (PG)

This course aims to introduce students to recent writing in English across a range of genres - novels, films, poetry and non-fiction prose - by authors from countries around the […]

Commodities of Empire: Colonialism, Ecology, Culture

The course includes relevant topics in colonial and postcolonial literature and ecocriticism. The first week introduces students to key concepts of empire, colonialism, postcolonialism, commodity, and culture with excerpts of […]

Cinema Auteurs

Cinema Auteurs allows students to explore the work of important directors from around the world in detail. Key topics to be discussed include: the usefulness or obsolescence of the concept […]

Sarah Dunnigan

Sarah's (she/her) main research interests lie in medieval and Renaissance literature, especially Scottish, and in particular with the literature and culture of Mary, Queen of Scots' reign; in fairy tales, […]

Contemporary Science Fiction

This course focuses on contemporary literary science fiction and its representations and analyses of today's world. Although often setting its narratives in the future or an alternative reality, science fiction […]

Sheelalipi Sahana

Sheelalipi Sahana (she/her) is a PhD candidate in English Literature in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. Her research interests include: Gender Space Materiality Postcolonialism Agency Travel writing Modernity. Current and […]

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