Mphil in English
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
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The diversity of research interests is one of the Department of English’s main strengths. English at Swansea was rated 4 in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise.
The Department is home to the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales (CREW) and to the Centre for Research into Gender in Culture and Society (GENCAS). Together with other research groups, these organize weekly research seminars, as well as regular symposia and conferences, and promote innovative research and publication in their fields.
Standard Entry requirements
Normally an upper second class or higher honours degree in English, or a degree equivalent.
Scholarships and Bursaries
Apart from AHRC awards, the Department of English can currently offer 11 Swansea University Master’s Studentships. The University also offers full and fees-only Research Studentships, while students have also regularly received awards from educational trusts.
Research
The Department has access to important English CD-ROMs, including English Poetry Full-Text Database, English Verse drama, Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Brontë sisters’ novels, the MLA International Bibliography, British Humanities Index, and the Annotated Bibliography for English Studies. It possesses the Archive of Welsh English (based on the Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects) and a Raymond Williams archive.
The Library has good holdings in all its research areas, and has collections of nineteenth-century periodicals, including the complete nineteenth-century Examiner on microfilm. The extensive Anglo-Welsh material is supplemented by three other important local collections: the Gwyn Thomas and the John Ormond collections at the Miners’ Library and the Dylan Thomas collection in Swansea City Central Library. Through CREW the Department is in the process of building a collection of manuscript materials by leading Anglo-Welsh writers, and it will also be involved in research exploration of the newly acquired Richard Burton papers, as well as interdisiplinary studies in collaboration with a new Richard Burton Centre.
Members of the Department are currently overseeing research students working on subjects varying from Samuel Daniel and emblem writing to Apocalypse in the lyrics of Bob Dylan, and from Surrealism and Gothic modes in Welsh 1930s writing to representations of women in Romantic oriental narratives.
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