Master of Arts in Contemporary Literature and Cultural
Birkbeck, University of London
UK,England
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12 Months
Duration
CAD 18,030/year
Tuition Fee
CAD 0 FREE
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UK, England
Type: University
Location Type: Urban
Founded: 1823
Total Students: 13,937 +
Int. Students: 1,270 +
Campus Detail
Main Campus Address
Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom
Master of Arts in Contemporary Literature and Cultural
Program Overview
Our MA Contemporary Literature and Culture (2000-present) offers you the chance to specialise in twenty-first-century literature and culture, as well as exposing you to the most important literary and theoretical developments of the last few decades.
Informed by our world-class research in contemporary literary and cultural studies, on this course you will examine:
- the effects of new technologies on narrative form
- the aesthetic, spatial and political coordinates of writing produced in an increasingly networked and globalised world
- literature’s role among a vibrant and diverse range of digital, visual and multimedia texts.
You will develop your expertise in key topics, such as: migrants’ narratives and refugee film-making; precarity fiction and emergent pandemic storytelling; anti-gentrification zines and the low-fi aesthetics of resistance; nonhuman forms of agency; post-gender feminism; the relationship of genres such as science fiction, horror and the fantastic to literary fiction; trans aesthetics in film and TV; African American poetry and performance; contemporary black aesthetics.
This MA also gives you the opportunity to pursue your own interests, whether they lie in contemporary poetics; in African American culture, or indigenous futurisms; in literary and cultural responses to environmental crisis; in the changing forms of the book in a digital age; or in historical approaches to issues like nation, race, gender and sexuality.
Application Fee
Application Fee: CAD 0 FREE Tuition Fee
CAD 18,030 per year
*Note: The fee is approximate and is subject to change
Living Cost in Birkbeck, University of London
CAD 12,006 per year
*Note: The fee is approximate and is subject to change
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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