MA Modern and Contemporary Literature, Culture and Thought: University of Sussex

About the programme

This MA is associated with the Centre for Modernist Studies .

The MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Culture and Thought at Sussex is a diverse programme, which offers courses on a range of topics that analyse the production and reception of modern literature. The programme includes courses which reflect on the experience of the city, on photography, on modernism and postmodernism, on psychoanalysis, on the experience of war, on globalisation, and on many other issues, as part of an attempt to understand how literature has shaped and been shaped by modern and contemporary culture.

In recent years this MA has offered courses in: Anglo-American Modernism: Poetry and Poetics,  Contemporary Writing, 1 Freud Fictions of Capital: Case Studies in American Narrative, Modernist and Postmodernist Fiction in Britain, Photography and Fiction in the c20th, Modern European Theatre. Critical Issues in Queer Theory Power and Religion: Nietzsche, Foucault, Kafka.

Admission requirments

UK entrance requirements

A first- or upper second-class undergraduate honours degree in a relevant subject.

Overseas entrance requirements

Sussex receives applications from all over the world and is therefore very experienced in assessing the qualifications offered by students from outside the UK.

For information on some of the most common international qualifications that meet their general entry requirements, please refer to the table in their International students section.

English language requirements

IELTS 7.0, with not less than 6.5 in each section. Internet TOEFL with 100 overall including 27 in both Speaking and Writing. For more information, refer to English language requirements.