Postgraduate Prospectus 2013 - Swansea University

English
Research opportunities
MA by Research/MPhil/PhD
RAE2008 60% of research rated
world-leading (4*) or internationally
excellent (3*)
Professors
C Belsey
S Davies
C Franklin
Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
Jim Milton
N Reeve
D Smith
M W Thomas
Academic and research staff 30
Postgraduates 190
Entry requirements:
Normally a good Honours degree
(first-class or 2.1) in English. For PhD
programmes in Linguistics, an MA in
Linguistics or a related discipline, and
experience of empirical research, is
normally required.
English Language requirement:
IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each
component) or Swansea University
recognised equivalent.
Scholarships and Bursaries
A range of postgraduate scholarships
and bursaries is available.
For details, please visit: www.swansea.
ac.uk/scholarships/Postgraduate
Funding may also be available from the
Arts and Humanities Research Council.
How can I find out more?
Visit our website:
www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/
AboutUs/EnglishLanguageandLiterature/
Contact the Admissions Tutor:
Email:
COAHGradCentrePGRAdmissions@
swansea.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1792 295926
Visit the University:
see page 174 for details
Applications can be made online at:
www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline
– see pages 176 – 177 for further
information
For details of the Master’s courses
available in English, please see page 54.
Research Degrees – English
English at Swansea University has been
a respected centre for research into
medieval, renaissance and eighteenthcentury
language and literature for over
90 years.
Today it is equally renowned for expertise
in Linguistics, Gender Studies, Welsh
Writing in English, twentieth and
twenty-first century literature and Creative
Writing. Many of the staff are sought as
experts appearing on radio and TV, and
write regularly for broadsheet newspapers
and major reviews.
Research degrees in English will:
• equip you with skills relevant for a
rewarding career in a range of diverse
fields, including academia, teaching,
Civil Service, journalism, speech
therapy, publishing, arts management
and communications, writing as well
as becoming published authors
• provide you with new and
specialised research skills
• prepare you for a career in academic
research and teaching
Research Strengths
Particular research interests include:
• Medieval literature, especially
anchoritism, Arthurian narratives
and the medieval town
• Poetry and drama of the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries
• Women’s writing and culture
1750-1870
• Romantic and Gothic literature;
Mary Wollstonecraft, Lord Byron,
William Blake, Mary Shelley.
• Romantic Orientalism;
Sir William Jones, British India
• Twentieth-century fiction, especially
D H Lawrence, Border writing and
the literature of the Cold War,
Angela Carter
• Welsh Writing in English, including
Dylan Thomas, Raymond Williams
and Welsh women’s writing
• Irish writing, including Yeats, Joyce
and Irish poetry since 1900
• Modern and contemporary poetry,
including J H Prynne
• Critical theory, especially cultural,
feminist, psychoanalytic and
canon theory
• American literature, including
the Harlem Renaissance and Whitman
• Film and visual narrative
• Gender in literature, critical theory
and culture from the medieval period
to the twenty-first century
• Creative writing, especially Fiction
and Poetry
• Linguistics and sociolinguistics
• Second Language Acquisition
processes, particularly Vocabulary
Acquisition
• Language testing
• Language in education, particularly
with respect to English Language
Teaching
• TEFL
• Translation
• Stylistics
• Discourse Analysis
Part-time distance PhD Applied Linguistics
In addition to the full-time PhD programme
in Linguistics, the Department offers a
part-time, distance-learning PhD in Applied
Linguistics. This scheme is centred on the
Vocabulary Acquisition Research Group
and is aimed at English language teachers
working abroad who want to maintain an
academic base in the UK. The programme
is highly structured, the work for each year
being tightly organised round a series of
training tasks and experimental projects,
and usually takes six years to complete.
Research Institute for Arts and Humanities
The Research Institute for Arts and
Humanities (RIAH) supports the Richard
Burton Centre for the Study of Wales, an
interdisciplinary forum that focuses on the
cultural and historical traditions in the
Welsh and English languages. It also runs
an annual postgraduate conference,
postgraduate workshops and provides
support for postgraduate research
expenses and practical help with grant
applications.
All research students in English belong to
the Graduate Centre in the College of
Arts and Humanities which provides
pastoral guidance as well as
administrative and academic facilities
Graduate students are provided with
fully-equipped workstations and a
common room, regular research training
and the opportunity of teaching
experience. Many are attached to
interdisciplinary research centres, based
in the Department, which run conferences
and a regular seminar programme
throughout the year, such as:
• CREW, the Centre for Research into the
English Language and Literature of
Wales
• GENCAS, the Centre for Research into
Gender in Culture and Society
• MEMO, the Centre for Medieval and
Early Modern Research
• WAWR, the Wales and the West
Romanticism Seminar
• VARG, the Vocabulary Acquisition
Research Group
For further information about RIAH,
visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/
artsandhumanities/riah
The Department also holds the Archive of
Welsh English (based on the Survey of
Anglo-Welsh Dialects). The extensive
Anglo-Welsh material is supplemented by
three other important local collections: the
Gwyn Thomas and the John Ormond
collections at the Miners’ Library and the
Dylan Thomas collection in the City and
Council of Swansea’s Central Library.
The Richard Burton Archives hold the
archives of Raymond Williams,
Ron Berry and Alun Richards.
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