Location:

Colchester, United Kingdom

Program Type:

Full Degree

Degree Level:

Master

Specialty:

English

Program Overview

Program Description:

The University of Essex is one of the UK's leading academic institutions, ranked ninth nationally for research excellence following the last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).

The Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies is an interdisciplinary department offering close supervision and a friendly atmosphere for intellectual debate. It is distinctive in the breadth of its cultural interests, providing expertise in a wide range of literatures, including English, United States, French, Italian and Latin American.

Since its inception under the poet Donald Davie in the 1960s, the Department has nurtured a long tradition of distinguished writers, who have played their part in shaping the department both as teachers and students, among them Robert Lowell, Michèle Roberts, Ken Smith, Tom Raworth, Ed Dorn, Ben Okri and Ted Berrigan, voices whose work has shaped literature as we know it today.

With the launch of a BA Creative Writing in 2005 and an MA Creative Writing in 2009, creative writing has quickly established itself as a central and exciting part of the curriculum at Essex, with a thriving undergraduate and postgraduate community, at both MA and PhD levels. The creative writing teaching team has a unique breadth of experience in the literature of different cultures and different forms, including novels, short stories, poetry, translation, theatre writing and science fiction.