Postgraduate taught

Our postgraduate students come from a variety of countries and backgrounds, to enhance their professional qualifications, continue their studies and pursue personal interests.

You will learn essential research skills and build your MA alongside fellow students through a through a mixture of core and optional modules, seminars, small classes and one-to-one supervision.

The programmes include:

• English MRes
  
• English Language MA
  
• English Literature MA
  
• English Literature: Modern and Contemporary Literature MA
  
• English Literature: Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Literature MA
  
• English Literature: Science Fiction Studies MA
  
• English Literature: Victorian Literature MA
  
• Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) MA
  
• Applied Linguistics and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages MA
  
• Creative and Critical Writing MA.

We are a UK top 10 department for research impact classified as outstanding, and 100% of our research environment was classified as world leading or internationally excellent (REF 2021), and our extensive range of taught English MA programmes reflects staff research interests and expertise. Our dedicated and passionate team of academics deliver the programmes in which they have research specialisms, meaning that you are taught by internationally leading experts in the fields of literature and language. 

As the MA progresses, you will work with tutors to enhance your academic writing and research skills, leading up to a final dissertation on a topic of your choice with an assigned supervisor who is a researcher in that field. 

As you research, you will be able to take advantage of our excellent research facilities. The Sydney Jones Library provides a superb suite of electronic materials, journals, books, special collections and archives, with support from a knowledgeable, helpful team. It also contains the Foundation Collection, the largest SF and Fantasy archive in Europe. 

You will also be able to take part in the seminar series and social events that regularly take place at the University, including the Liverpool Literary Festival and seminars from visiting writers and academics.