Centre for Studies in Literature (CSL)
Postgraduate study
MA
The Centre for Literary Studies offers MA teaching in Literature, Culture and Identity. For information on how to join our MA programme, please contact: humanities.admissions@port.ac.uk
PhD
The Centre also offers PhD supervision for a wide range of specialist areas in literary studies as well as critical and cultural theory. We welcome in particular applications that fall within the Centre's research strengths: Early Modern Writing; Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture; Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British and American Literature; Nation, Identity and the Postcolonial.
Doctoral candidates are normally supervised by a team of three staff and fully integrated in the Centre's research culture of conferences, symposia, workshops and seminar series. They benefit from designated postgraduate facilities, such as a postgraduate study area, close links with the Centre for European and International Research, and they organise their own work-in-progress postgraduate seminars. The faculty also organises an annual postgraduate conference. There are currently 23 full-time PhD students and 40 part-time PhD candidates in the faculty.
For more information on PhDs in The Centre for Literary Studies, please contact: humanities.admissions@port.ac.uk.
For examples of some current doctoral research projects, see below: