Overview
Successful applicants will be supervised by academic staff working at the forefront of their fields and leading debate in the ever-changing environments of the discipline.
Doctoral students are encouraged to push beyond the boundaries of critical commonplaces, to think differently and to participate fully in the rich intellectual life of the School.
As well as working closely with a dedicated supervisor, or supervisors, students are able to develop their projects within the context of a dynamic and well-resourced interdisciplinary research culture.
Programme aims
The culmination of the PhD in English Literature from Cardiff University is a sustained piece of written work that makes an original contribution to knowledge and understanding in a chosen field of study.
Successful PhD students are trained in the most sophisticated critical and theoretical practices in preparation for a career in Higher Education or professional employment requiring advanced research skills and subject knowledge at the highest level.
Distinctive features
- A dynamic and supportive interdisciplinary research culture that connects the vibrancy of Cardiff’s literary and cultural location to the broader international contexts of the discipline.
- Access to a diverse range of research training and professional development opportunities, including: a weekly thesis workshop; a student-led annual postgraduate research conference; a residential conference for students in their first year of study at Gregynog Hall, a country house with a distinguished artistic heritage set in glorious countryside in mid-Wales.
- We offer teaching opportunities on the undergraduate degree and PhD students can undertake the School’s unique ‘Learning to Teach’ programme, accredited by the Higher Education Academy.
- The School provides a dedicated suite for research students with computing facilities, networked information and access to email and Internet.
- Postgraduate research students can apply for School funding to attend academic conferences and/or undertake archival/library visits.
Career Prospects
Job roles: Lecturer, Researcher, Editor, Head Teacher, English Teacher, EFL Teacher, PR Officer.
Employers: Universities from Cork (Ireland) to Wisconsin State (USA), Oxford University Press, Penguin Random House, Palgrave MacMillan, London Film School, Virgin Media, Literature Wales, Visit Wales.
Employers: Oxford University Press, London Film School, Palgrave MacMillan, Universities from Cork (Ireland) to Wisconsin State (USA), Virgin Media, Literature Wales, Visit Wales.
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Research projects
We offer expert supervision across the chronological and theoretical range of the discipline, with particular strengths in the following areas:
- African American literature
- book history
- children’s literature
- critical and cultural theory
- cultural history
- digital humanities
- editing theory and practice
- experimental writing
- film and adaptation
- gender and sexuality studies
- gothic
- historicism (new-Elizabethan, neo-Medieval, neo-Victorian, counter-Romantic)
- illustration studies
- literary history
- literature of the long eighteenth century
- literature and the environment
- literature and law
- literature and science
- literature and slavery from 1760 to the present
- manuscript culture
- medical humanities
- medieval literary and cultural studies (including medieval afterlives)
- modern drama
- modernist literature
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Duration
- Full-time
- 36 months
- Part-time
- 60 months
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Disciplines
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English requirements
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General requirements
- Applications for research degrees should be accompanied by a research proposal of around 1,000 words maximum. This should include a draft title and establish key objectives in terms of the basic research questions you intend to address.
- The proposal should additionally situate your work in relation to the wider field of existing scholarship; give an initial sense of the original contribution you hope to make and provide an indication of your intended research methodology. A preliminary bibliography of expected key sources should also be appended.
- In addition to the research proposal, application form and supporting documents, we also require an essay on a literary topic of your choice (around 4,000 words, in English).
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International
24450 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 24450 GBP per year during 36 months. -
National
4712 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 4712 GBP per year during 36 months.
Living costs for Cardiff
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
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