Postgraduate Studies in English

The Department of English offers an MA by research only and a PhD across a wide range of literary, cultural and theoretical studies, an MA in Creative Writing, an MA in English by research and coursework, and a Masters Qualifying in English with a research component.

Particular strengths in the department include pre-1800 British literature, Australian literature (including its regional and textual character), literary and other biography, women's studies, literary theory, literature and the history of ideas, poetics and stylistics,the construction of canons and the newly emerging developments of English studies, postcolonial literature and discourse, creative writing, law and literature, discourse analysis, children's literature and discourses of childhood.

The research interests of staff members are many and varied. For a sample of the section's research output, see recent and forthcoming books.

See the Centre for Postcolonial Writing and the School of English Communications & Performance Studies postgraduate studies pages for additional information.