You may want to pass this along to any undergrad students who might be
interested in an MA in Med or Early Mod Lit
AAY
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Subject: Announcement: Manchester University Medieval and Early Modern
Literature: MA and postgraduate applications, please circulate
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:51:20 -0000
From: Jerome de Groot <[log in to unmask]>
The MA in Medieval and Early Modern Literature is now accepting
applications for study in 2008-09. This innovative programme regularly
attracts and trains the best graduate students in the field with its
blend of texts and practical sessions.
The teaching staff, which includes Naomi Baker, Anke Bernau, Jerome de
Groot, David Matthews, Gale Owen-Crocker, Jackie Pearson and Alexander
Rumble, has an international reputation in a number of the most
important themes that are currently stimulating scholarly debate
You will be taught cutting edge, hands-on research techniques as well as
key theoretical approaches; you will be able to use a world-class
research library; you will be part of a dynamicgraduate community. You
may choose to work on interdisciplinary Anglo-Saxon Studies, on Middle
English or Early Modern texts, or can choose to select thematically
related course-units from across the full scope and date-range of the
programme. We regularly have postgraduate masterclasses run by leaders
in the field such as Alan Sinfield, Ann Hughes, Catherine Belsey,
Stephen Knight and Sharon Achinstein.
What our students say about us: 'I've really enjoyed studying for a PhD
at Manchester. The postgraduate community in English and American
Studies is very supportive, and my supervisors were excellent. It was
also exciting to be involved with an interdisciplinary research
environment, with lots of opportunities for interaction with other
subject areas.'
Course outline includes:
Material Cultures
Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval Culture and Context
The Anglo-Saxon World: Images of Man, Plant and Beast
Rebellion and Reaction 1300-1450
Early Modern Masculinities
Chaucer, Troilus, and Criticism
Literacy and the Book in England before 1200
Ugliness, Disability and Selfhood 1560-1770
Medievalisms
The writing of religious dissent: Literature in the age of Milton
Magic and Popular Belief, c.1200-c.1500
Early Modern X-Files
Reconceiving the Renaissance
War in the Early Modern Imagination
Details at:
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/englishamericanstudies/research/medieval
or email [log in to unmask]
Dr Jerome de Groot
English and American Studies
S1.16
Samuel Alexander Building
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
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0161 2753170
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Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada
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