English (MA)

The MA in English is ideal for students who wish to build on the foundations of their undergraduate degrees by pursuing more advanced studies in English at postgraduate level, yet who also wish to retain the intellectual breadth of addressing a variety of literature, past and present. This MA offers an intensive specialist training in the study of literary texts and theories, and students explore sources as diverse as vellum manuscripts, serialised novels, contemporary bestsellers, digital texts or films.

The MA in English has two main strands: the taught classes (from a wide selection of modules) and the independent research project (the dissertation). This two-fold dimension enables students to develop their knowledge and skill with the guidance of lecturers in the taught coursework and to develop a substantial autonomous research and writing project.

English at NUI Galway has a number of particular research strengths in areas such as Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Book History, Theatre History, and Colonialism and Travel Writing. The MA in English allows students to take advantage of these and other areas while also pursuing their own topics of individual interest.

Subjects available in this course are:-

• Optional EN541: Colonialism In Twentieth Century Cultural Theory - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional IS105: Young Ireland to the Free State: Writing in English, 1849-1922 - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional DT6102: Irish Drama and Theatre from Wilde to O'Casey - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional IS106: Decline & Revival: Language, Literature & Society 1800-1939 - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional FM521: Critical Theory I - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional EN601: Writing Workshop: Poetry - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional EN529: Dissertation - 30 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional EN547: Literature And Colonialism - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional GR6100: Language & Intercultural Communication - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional EN6105: Introduction to Digital Humanities - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional EN6136: Thinking about Books/Thinking about Theatre - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Required EN6116: Writing and Research - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional IS108: The Politics of Modernity: Writing in English, 1922 to the present - 10 Credits - Semester 2
• Optional IS109: Gaelic & Free: Cultural Politics & Writing in Irish since 1939 - 10 Credits - Semester 2
• Optional MV504: Old & Middle English - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional EN597: Approaches to the Study of Culture and Colonialism - 10 Credits - Semester 2
• Optional DT6101: Irish Drama and Theatre from Beckett to the Present - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional FM522: Critical Theory II - 10 Credits - Semester 2
• Optional FM6105: Digital Film and Culture - 10 Credits - Semester 2
• Optional EN527: Literature Of North America - 10 Credits - Semester 2
• Optional EN6113: Writing Workshop: Poetry 2 - 10 Credits - Semester 2
• Optional EN6125: WB Yeats and the Cultural Revolution - 10 Credits - Semester 2
• Optional FM6119: Film, Politics, and Colonialism - 10 Credits - Semester 2
• Optional EN6131: The Odes of John Keats - 10 Credits - Semester 2
• Optional EN570: Book History - 10 Credits - Semester 2
• Optional EN6134: Studies in Literary History and Aesthetics - 10 Credits - Semester 2