English PhD

Brunel University of London, London, United Kingdom

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# 251-300QS Subject Rankings

36 monthsProgram duration

21,260 GBPTuition Fee/year

English Language and LiteratureMain Subject Area

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Program overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PHD

Study Mode

On Campus

PhD applications in any of the areas of strength, which include modern and contemporary literature, Shakespeare, Renaissance studies, Victorian literature and culture, and world literature in English are welcome. Research in the area of contemporary literature and culture is clustered within the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing (BCCW). The BCCW organises regular research events and the annual Hillingdon Literary Festival. It also runs the popular MA in English programme at Brunel. A BCCW branded book series, ‘British Fiction: The Decades Series’ is published by Bloomsbury Academic. Some past research projects undertaken by faculty at Brunel include: War, heroic masculinity, and the body in the early modern period; Exiles, refugees and migrants in the early modern world; The rise of print and propaganda in the West, c.1450-1750; Writing and rewriting history in early modern Europe; The Reformation in print; Fantasy writing of the 19th and 20th centuries; 20th/21st century comparative studies; Mass-Observation and Everyday Life; Working-class and proletarian writing; Modernist and postwar women's writing; Transnational modernist studies; Popular fictions, popular culture and consumption; Radical politics and aesthetics; Gender studies; Queer studies and sexuality studies; The New York School and the avant-garde; Postcolonial literature and theory; Caribbean and migrant fiction; World Literature; World-systems theory, development studies, global capitalism; Postwar science fiction; 9/11 and the traumatological; Narrative analysis; Contemporary global fictions; Contemporary British fiction; The break-up of Britain as represented in contemporary fiction.

Program overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PHD

Study Mode

On Campus

Admission Requirements

IELTS

GPA

PTE Academic

64+

TOEFL

98+

The general University entrance requirement for registration for a research degree is normally a First or Upper Second Class Honours degree (1st or 2:1). An interview will be required as part of the admissions process and will be conducted by at least two academic staff members remotely via MS Teams, Zoom, or face to face. Applicants will be required to submit a personal statement and a research statement.

Program Duration

3 Years

Starting Month(s)

Jan

Starting Month(s)

Apr

Tuition fees

Domestic Students

Tuition Fee/year

4,786 GBP

Tuition Fee (Out of State)

International Students

Tuition Fee/year

21,260 GBP

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Brunel University of London, London, United Kingdom

# 251-300QS Subject Rankings

36 monthsProgram duration

21,260 GBPTuition Fee/year

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