BA English Literature and American Studies
Entry requirements
A level: AAB including A in English Literature or English Language & Literature
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and English Literature, American Studies and Creative Writing, exploring literature, history, and culture. Students can undertake a semester abroad in North America or Europe during the degree.
Modules
- Introduction to American Literature to 1900
- Twentieth Century American Literature
- Introduction to American Studies
- Reading Literature
- Theory and Text
- A Global Nation: Power, Politics, and Struggle Across the American Century, 1870-2020
- Literature and History
- American Cultural Studies
- American Film Studies
- Cold War America, 1950-1991
- Work and Play in the USA, 1880-2020
- From Jamestown to James Brown: African-American History and Culture
- American Literature and Social Criticism, 1900-Present
- Twentieth Century African American Literature
- The American Civil War
- Creative Writing: Fiction
- Chaucer: Texts, Contexts, Conflicts
- Shakespeare
- Gender, Sexuality and the Body: Theories and Histories
- Writing, Identity and Nation
- Postcolonial World Literatures
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Medieval Metamorphoses
- Renaissance Literature
- Old English: Writing the Unreadable Past
- Satire and Sentiment: British Literature, 1660–1820
- Modernism
- Romanticism (1776 - 1832)
- Introduction to Screenwriting
- Victorian Literature
- Long Essay
- Slavery and the Old South
- America Abroad: Non-State Actors and the Making of a World Power
- Love American Style
- History of California
- Conspiracy Theories in American Culture
- Harlem and the State of Urban America
- Climate Change & Culture Wars
- American Hauntings
- James Baldwin in Context: Race, Sexuality and Activism
- Creative Writing: Fiction
- Culture and Conflict: Neoliberalism and Cultural Production
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Irish Fiction Since 1990
- Radical Turns: Culture and Politics in the 1930s
- Culture and Politics in the Contemporary Global Novel
- Eros: Love and Desire in Victorian Poetry
- The History of the Book in Early Modern England
- Apocalypse: Early Modern Imaginings
- Queer Forms: Objects and Animals in Eighteenth-Century Poetry
- Hypercontemporary Queer and Trans Fiction
- Haunting the Stage: The Supernatural in Early Modern Drama
- Things that Talk: Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture
- Culture and Politics in the Contemporary British Novel
- British Fiction and Empire in the Twentieth Century
- Creative Writing: Creative Non-Fiction
- Romantic Venice
- Co-operation, Competition, and Happiness: Dangerous Ideas in the Nineteenth Century
- Crime and Contemporary Culture
- Vital Matters: Medieval Ecologies
- Humans and other Animals in Contemporary Literature
- Women’s Writing, Citizenship, and Political Radicalism
- Literary and Sexual Experimentalism Between the Wars
- Contemporary South Asian Literatures
- Literary Landscapes
- Imaginations of the Future: People, Earth and Power
- Interdisciplinary Literature and Theology: Empathy, Ethics, Liberation