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English PhD - 36 months

Subject Ranking

# 251-300QS Subject Rankings

Program Duration

36 monthsProgram duration

Tuitionfee

52,065 GBPTuition Fee/year

Main Subject Area

English Language and LiteratureMain Subject Area

Program overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PHD

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

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.

Admission requirements

Undergraduate

7+
3.7+
64+
3 Years
Jan-2000

Tuition fee and scholarships

Domestic Students

13,221 GBP
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International Students

52,065 GBP
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