Your postgraduate English Literature offer holder hub
Congratulations on your offer to study English Literature at the University of Birmingham. This is your dedicated subject hub where you will find important information about your course before you start.
Congratulations from Ellie Dobson, Director of Admissions for the College of Arts and Law
Academic conferences on campus
In July 2024 the University of Birmingham hosted the 29th Annual Dickens Society Symposium which brought together over 90 delegates from across the globe. Scholars from universities situated in Europe, India, Africa, the Middle East, the US and Canada, presented on the theme “Dickens, Context and Co-occurrence”.
Annual Dickens Society Symposium
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Discover student societies
In this blog post, MA English Literature student Thea discusses the benefits of joining student societies - from helping you boost your employability to finding a space to unwind during your studies.
Explore your module choices
Find out what modules you can study as part of your degree. When it's time to choose your modules you will be sent a separate email.
Module handbook
Suggested summer reading
The English Literature admissions tutor Dr Amy Burge provides her reading suggestions for each of our English Literature pathways.
If you're considering the Medieval Literature pathway, why not try
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Donoghue, Daniel, ed., Seamus Heaney, trans., Beowulf: A Verse Translation (W. W. Norton, 2001)
- The Public Medievalist 'Games' archive
- The Public Medievalist 'Film & TV archive'
If you're considering the Long-Nineteenth Century pathway, why not try
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Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796), edited by Tone Brekke and Jon Mee (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
- Elizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis and Other Stories, edited by Heather Glen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
If you're considering the Modern and Contemporary pathway, why not try
- Virginia Woolf, The Waves, To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway
- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
- Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
- Bernadine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
If you're considering the Popular Literature and Culture pathway, why not try
- Kristen Roupenian, "Cat Person", The New Yorker (4 December 2017)
- Mikaella Clements, “From Star Trek to Fifty Shades: how fanfiction went mainstream,” The Guardian (8 August 2018).
