English

Coursework

Our English department is renowned for its comprehensive coverage of English literature and language, and the historical cultures that have nurtured them, from their beginnings in the Anglo-Saxon period through to the most recent creative and critical work. You will gain access to the largest University library in Australia, the Fisher Library. In addition to the extensive book collection, it offers online access to a vast range of databases, books, and journals. Fisher’s rare book collection has outstanding holdings in the areas of English literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Australian literature and science fiction. You will discover that diverse career opportunities exist when you graduate with a higher English degree. Research students have found academic positions or gone on to postdoctoral research. Others have joined coursework graduates in secondary schools, libraries and archives, publishing, marketing and advertising, media, administration, and the public service serving as speech and policy writers. Some of the units of study you will be studying in this degree include: Literature and Desire, Literary Cities, Novel into Film, and Shakespeare and His Contemporaries.

See also: Creative Writing

Contact
Department website: sydney.edu.au/arts/english/

Dr Jan Shaw
Phone: + 61 2 9351 7413
Email:

Awards and Requirements

Please refer to the degree resolutions in this Handbook for information on the specific admission requirements for different award courses. sydney.edu.au/handbooks/arts_PG/coursework/m_arts.shtml

Graduate Certificate in Arts (English)
Candidates for the Graduate Certificate in Arts (English) must complete 24 credit points of units of study.

Graduate Diploma in Arts (English)
Candidates for the Graduate Diploma in Arts (English) must complete 36 credit points of units of study.

Master of Arts (English)
Candidates for the Master of Arts (English) must complete 48 credit points of units of study.

Master of Letters (English)
Candidates for the Master of Letters (English) must complete the two treatise units of study (24 credit points) listed for the course.

Research

The range of the department's interests is extensive, in terms of both course content and varieties of critical approach. The benefits of its programs reflect this range. Areas of special strength include: American literature; Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, and Celtic studies; Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature; Romanticism; nineteenth-century literature; drama studies; film studies; Australian literature; modern English language studies; and creative writing. Staff participate in the interdisciplinary programs of Gender Studies and Performance Studies. The Medieval and Early Modern Centre, Centre for Celtic Studies, and Australian Language Research Centre are all based in or closely related to the department.

Contact
Department website: sydney.edu.au/arts/english/

Associate Professor Vanessa Smith
Phone: + 61 2 9351 2857
Email:

Awards and Requirements

Please refer to the degree resolutions in this Handbook and to the ‘Faculty Admissions Policy and Procedure for: Doctor of Philosophy: Pathways to admission’, for information on the specific admission requirements for different research award courses. sydney.edu.au/handbooks/arts_PG/research/phd.shtml

Master of Arts (Research)
Master of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy