English with Shakespeare final year modules

Compulsory module

English with Shakespeare Dissertation 

In this module, students produce an independent dissertation on a topic determined in consultation with their supervisor.

Optional modules (may include) 

English Literature Special Subjects (students choose 4, 2 of which must be relevant to Shakespeare studies)

• Fantasy and Fandom: writing back to the medieval in modern fantasy 

• African American Freedom: 20th Century Literature and Visual Culture 

• After the Deluge: Writing and Recovery after the First World War 

• Alternative Facts: Genre, Historicism and the Fantasy of Other Pasts  

• American Frontiers: Nation and Identity in the Nineteenth Century

• Byron and Keats 

• Digital Witness: Stories of Surveillance 

• Elizabeth I and her Poets 

• Fantastic Beasts and Where They Came From 

• Feminist Killjoys: Theories of Gender and Sexuality 

• Flourish for the Players (Shakespeare's Contemporaries) 

• From Cover to Cover: Histories of the Book

• Gender and Irish Fiction 

• Guilty Pleasures: Reading the Historical Romance 

• Islamophobia and the Novel  

• Last Year’s Novels

• Law and Literature

• Literary Translation 

• Literature at Sea: 1851 to present 

• Literature in the Age of Evolution 

• Love Poetry

• Magic, Monsters and Marvels in the Medieval World 

• Making Global Literatures in Britian 

• Mapping the Middle Ages: Cultural Encounters in the Medieval East and West 

• Modern American Poetry 

• Muslim Women's Popular Fiction

• Neo-Victorianism

• New York, New York 

• Nineteenth-Century Detective Fiction 

• Orwell's Books: Writing Politics, Resisting Tyranny 

• PoMo Historical Fictions 

• Remembering World War One 

• Rude Britannia: 1660 - 1830 

• Shakespeare's Tragedies 

• TMI: Confessional Writing, from Rousseau to present 

• The End of Life As We Know It: The Implications of Digital Technology 

• The Modern Short Story 

• Politics and Terror in the Age of Revolutions