BA English Literature

BA English Literature will enable you to explore a wide range of texts dating from a variety of periods.

From the Anglo-Saxon period to American literary and cultural studies, from the Renaissance to the contemporary, you'll explore written forms ranging from illuminated manuscripts to graphic novels, from poetry to postmodern fiction.

Your first year of study will see you sample a wide variety of literature and cultural theories, and develop knowledge and skills that you will build on in Years 2 and 3, when you will have the opportunity to choose the course units that most interest you.

You will become part of a thriving community of students, lecturers and writers at The University of Manchester, based in the heart of a UNESCO City of Literature that has produced some of the world's greatest writers and has a thriving literature and arts scene, including major events like Manchester Literature Festival.