About Us
English at Manchester Metropolitan University is a dynamic and multi-faceted discipline: staff work in a wide range of specialisms and particular areas of strength are reflected in our three Masters Programmes. The Department has a student body of around 500 undergraduates studying for single honours English and 75 in their first year of joint degrees in English and American Literature, English and Creative Writing and English and Film. There are also approximately 250 more taking its courses as components of other degrees.
Both the specialist English degree and the English element of combined studies programmes (Combined Honours Programme / English with Modern Languages) emphasise the development of a range of student skills (in oral communication and teamwork and the use of information technology, for example) as well as writing. Students from the Department have the opportunity to study abroad for a part of their degree programme, both in the US and Europe, and the Department currently sends a significant number of students on exchanges and receives the same number in return.
The Department offers a broad range of units in literature, theory, creative writing, film and cultural studies. Among staff interests which shape the teaching programme are Shakespeare in Performance, Post-Colonial Writing, Creative Writing, Critical Theory, Romanticism, Victorian Literature and Culture, Gothic, Contemporary Poetry, Myth, and 19th and 20th Century American Literature. Within the Department there is a PgDip/MA in Creative Writing, run from within our Writing School. The MA in Critical Theory will soon be joined by other MA pathways in critical studies in English, the details of which will be posted as soon as they become available.