Master of Arts [M.A] [Literature and Culture] From University College Dublin

This MA provides an intensive combination of taught course units and supervised research to develop our students' skills and confidence as scholars and critics of literature and its contexts. Our chief aim is to enable our students to develop as scholars, researchers, writers and critics in their chosen specialism, equipped with a range of critical skills and methodologies for understanding and analysing literature and culture across multiple historical, social and intellectual contexts.

• Choose from a wide range of specialised modules and pathways.
• Benefit from expert tuition in a supportive and open learning environment.
• Develop your own research topic with one-to-one supervision from a member of our world-class staff.
• Be part of a School with a long tradition of excellence and impact in literature that hosts writers-in-residence of international renown.
• Be part of the School?s vibrant and welcoming postgraduate community, with weekly School research seminars, an active, dynamic English Graduate Society, and regular conferences, symposia and other events that our MA students are encouraged to get involved in.

Some of our graduates opt to stay on for doctoral work with a view to career in academia. Most have gone on to work in a wide range of professions, including teaching, journalism, broadcasting, publishing, advertising, the Civil Service, libraries and archives, public relations, creative industries, cultural heritage, arts administration, banking, business and NGO and advocacy work.