Course variations

Course summary

The objectives of this programme: to produce high calibre research in English literature and related fields; to encourage a culture of investigative research; and to help students develop skills appropriate to their personal and professional needs. The main areas of research: English renaissance literature; eighteenth-century literature; literature of the romantic period; the nineteenth-century novel; Victorian literature; se Asian literature and culture; contemporary fiction; 20th century Irish literature; science and literature; contemporary drama; postcolonial studies; Asian American literature and film; film studies and Asian cinema; literary and critical theory; post-Jungian psychology and literature; gender studies; creative writing, poetry; medieval literature; 19th century American literature; 20th century American literature; Elizabethan literature; Shakespeare; 19th century austral-Asian literature; performance studies; magical realism; historical materialism; the long eighteenth century.

Program modules

The modules include HL7101 Graduate Seminar in the History of Literary Theory, HL7102 Graduate Seminar in Critical Theory, HL7103 Graduate Seminar in Drama, HL7104 Graduate Seminar in Film, HL7105 Graduate Seminar in Renaissance Studies, HL7106 Graduate Seminar in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, HL7107 Graduate Seminar in Romanticism, HL7108 Graduate Seminar in Victorian Literature and Culture, HL7109 Graduate Seminar in Modernism, HL7110 Graduate Seminar in Contemporary Literature and Culture, HL7111 Graduate Seminar in American Literature and Culture, HL7112 Graduate Seminar in Singaporean Literature and Culture, HL7113 Graduate Seminar in Postcolonial Literature, HL7114 Graduate Seminar in Cultural Studies, HL7888 Directed Study in Literature, HL7901 Graduate Seminar on Special Topic.

Entry requirement for international students

Admission to the programme requires a good master's degree in either English literature or a relevant field from a recognised university; demonstrated ability to pursue research in the student's proposed field of advanced study. Students should include with their application a research proposal in which they outline what they intend to study and why they intend to do so, together with a sustained justification of their chosen methodology.

Qualification

Doctoral

Awarding body

Nanyang Technological University