This programme consists of a core course taught by a range of tutors, specialist courses taught by individual tutors and a dissertation involving supervised independent study. Specialist courses may include:
* Strange Gods: fin-de-si?cle fiction
* African-American literature from the Harlem renaissance to the present day
* Writing the disaster
* Modernist sexualities
* African modernities: a case study of colonial and postcolonial Nigeria
* Body spaces: poetry, poetics and experimentalism in post-war America
* Irish literature since the 1950s
* American war writing
* Queer fictions
* OULIPO (Ouvroir de littŽrature potentielle)
* Proust in theory.
Tutors will supervise dissertation topics in all areas of 20th century and contemporary writing, critical and cultural theory, postcolonialism and Irish studies.