Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies

Department of Literature, Film, & Theatre Studies

Introduction

Welcome to the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies. We combine expertise in literature, creative writing, film, and theatre studies. In our Department you will be able to study English literature and to put it in dialogue  with postcolonial writing, the classics, and literature from Europe and the Americas. You will be encouraged to acquire a deeper understanding of different cultural contexts by enriching your study of literature with the study of film, theatre, creative writing and the history of ideas. Every step of the way you will be supported by friendly and committed teachers who are also leading scholars in their field, and affirmed poets, novelists, playwrights and filmmakers.

Our strengths

  • Interdisciplinary department offering a friendly atmosphere

  • First-rate poets, novelists, theatre writers and scholars at the cutting edge of their field

  • Dedicated film screening facility

  • Use of our state of the art Lakeside Theatre

  • Thriving global community of staff and students

Our subjects

 

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