CL Programmes in the UK

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Specialist MA Programmes:

  • MA Modern to Contemporary Literature (Birkbeck)
  • MA Contemporary Literature & Culture (Birkbeck)
  • MA 21st Century Literature (Lincoln)
  • MA Contemporary Literature, Culture & Theory (King’s College London)
  • MA Modern and Contemporary Literature (Manchester)
  • MA The Contemporary (Canterbury)
  • MA Contemporary Literature (Northampton)
  • MA Modern and Contemporary Literature (Liverpool)
  • MA Modern and Contemporary Literature, Culture & Thought (Sussex)
  • MPhil Modern & Contemporary Literature (Cambridge)
  • MA Contemporary Literature (York St John)
  • MA English: Contemporary Literatures (Leeds Beckett)
  • MA Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture (St Andrews)
  • MA Modern and Contemporary Writing (UEA)
  • MA Contemporary Literature and Film (Keele)
  • MA English, Modern & Contemporary Pathway (Leeds)
  • MA Modern and Contemporary Writing (Reading)
  • MA Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Chester)
  • MA English, Modern & Contemporary Pathway (Exeter)
  • MA English, Modern & Contemporary Pathway (Lancaster)
  • MA English, Modern & Contemporary Pathway (Birmingham)
  • MA English, Contemporary Writing Pathway (QMUL)
  • MSc Literature and Modernity (Edinburgh)
  • MLitt Modernities: Literature, Culture, Theory (Glasgow)

BA and MA Modules:

  • Cutting Edge: 21st Century Literature (core MA module for the Modern and Contemporary Literature MA pathway, Sheffield Hallam University)
  • 20th and 21st Century Literature (Level 2 optional module, De Montfort University)
  • Post-Millennial Fiction (Level 3 optional module, Brunel University)
  • The 21st Century British Novel (Level 3 and MA optional module, University of Surrey)
  • The Contemporary English Novel (Level 2 optional module, London Metropolitan University)
  • English Now (core MA module, University of Lincoln)
  • Contemporary Speculative Fiction (optional MA module, University of St Andrews)
  • Contemporary English Fiction (MA core module, University of Liverpool)
  • Contemporary Fiction (Level 3 optional module, De Montfort University)
  • Late 20th Century Fiction (Level 3 optional module, Brunel University)
  • Futuristic Fictions (Level 2 and 3 optional module, University of Manchester)
  • Contemporary Literature (Level 3 optional module, Oxford Brookes University)
  • Contemporary Fiction (Level 2 and Level 3 optional module, University of St. Andrews)
  • Modern British Fiction Since 1950 (Level 2 and 3 optional module, University of Nottingham)
  • British and Irish Literature, 1910 to the Present (Level 2 and 3 optional module, University of York)
  • Postwar British and American Fiction (MA core MA module for the MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature, University of Central Lancashire)
  • Postwar to Postmodern: Literature 1945 – Present Day (Level 2 and 3 optional module, University of Leicester)
  • Reading 21st Century Fictions (Level 2 and 3 optional module, Birkbeck)
  • Twenty-First Century British Fiction (Level 3 option, Lincoln)
  • Women Writing the 21st Century (MA option, Lincoln)
  • London Now (MA option, Lincoln)
  • Contemporary American Fiction (MA option, Lincoln)
  • Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture (Level 2/5 option module, BA Birmingham)
  • Last Year’s Novels (Level 3/6 option module, BA Birmingham)
  • Reading and Popular Culture: Contemporary Book Cultures in North America & UK (Level 3/6 option module, BA Birmingham)
  • The Long Contemporary (Level 2/5 option module BA QMUL)
  • Writing Now (Level 2/5 option module BA QMUL)
  • Contemporary American Popular Culture (Level 3/6 option module, QMUL)
  • Genres of Contemporary Writing ((Level 3/6 option module, QMUL)
  • World Comics (Level 3/6 option module, QMUL)
  • Time, Narrative, Culture (Level 3/6 option module, QMUL)
  • Writing the Present (MA contemporary pathway module QMUL)
  • State of the Novel (MA contemporary pathway module QMUL)
  • After Postcolonialism ((Level 3/6 option module, QMUL)
  • Look Who’s Computing / Digital Subjectivity ((Level 3/6 option module, QMUL)
  • Laughing Matters: Comedy and Contemporary Culture ((Level 3/6 option module, QMUL)
  • Queer Histories: Contemporary Gay and Lesbian British and Irish Fiction (Royal Holloway)
  • Ideas in Contemporary Fiction (Royal Holloway)
  • Brexit, Literature and The Discipline of English (Royal Holloway)
  • The First Person (Royal Holloway)
  • Alternative Worlds (Northumbria)
  • Vamps and Virgins (Northumbria)
  • Postwar US Writing (Northumbria)
  • Violent Femmes (Northumbria)
  • American Gothic (Northumbria)
  • Neo-Victorianism (Northumbria)
  • Twenty First Century Literature: Writing in the Present (Northumbria)
  • Alternative Ulster (Salford)
  • Post-Colonial African Literatures (Salford)
  • Descent into Hell (Salford)
  • The Test of Evil (Salford)
  • Visual Text (Salford)
  • Reading and Writing Innovative Poetry (Salford)
  • The Contemporary Novel: Transatlantic Crosscurrents (Glasgow)
  • Contemporary American Fiction (Edinburgh)
  • Contemporary Postcolonial Writing (Edinburgh)
  • Twenty-First Century Fiction (Edinburgh)
  • Neo-Victorian Transformations (Aberdeen)
  • All Too Human: Human, Animal, and Posthuman Relations (Aberdeen)
  • Art and Atrocity: Representations of Trauma and Violence (Aberdeen)
  • Contemporary Poetry in Great Britain and Ireland (St Andrews)
  • Contemporary British Fiction (St Andrews)
  • Nationalists and Nomads: Contemporary World Literature (St Andrews)
  • Contemporary British Writers of Comics and Graphic Novels (Dundee)
  • Contemporary Poetry (Dundee)
  • Contemporary Literature (Dundee)