Postgraduate Studies

MA Study

Colleagues from across the Centre teach on our MA specialism in Postcolonial Studies. The Postcolonial Studies specialism in English Studies offers you the opportunity to explore a range of world literatures in relation to postcolonial critical theories and the social, cultural and political legacies of western colonialism. You will study national and global literatures in the context of contemporary critical debates such as theories of nationhood and migration and emergent debates on race, identity and globalisation. In the process, you will analyse the ways in which writers from different regions draw upon non-western cultural traditions and practices to generate new modes of seeing and writing our interconnected world.

You can find out more about this specialism, including the units that are taught here: 

MA English Studies

Doctoral Study

We welcome PhD proposals from prospective doctoral students and supervise students across the full range of postcolonial studies.

Faculty directly linked with the Centre include: Eleanor Byrne, Sarah Ilott, Muzna Rahman, Minoli Salgado, Chloe Germaine, Ginette Carpenter, Blanka Grzegorcyzk, Monique Roffey, Malika Booker, Rachel Lichtenstein, David Cooper, Jess Edwards, Berthold Schoene, Steve Dixon, Tim Edensor, Michael Roberts, Alice Kettle, Sonja Lawrenson, Kate Pahl, Susan Barker, Alex Wheatle.

Our Doctoral Students 21/22

• Meriem Abed – The work of Diana Abu-Jaber and its relation to Arab-American Literature
• Neil Cliff – Mungo Park, travel writing and literary space
• Meriem Dermach – Putting presence into Absence: A single author study of Bernardine Evariso
• Sarra Grendi – Cosmopolitanism and life writing in the Algerian Diaspora
• Peter Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke – West African Speculative Fiction
• Connie Hamilton – Renovating ‘massa’s’ house: Decolonising YA Fantasy
• Esther Hudson – The Song of the Banshee: Voicing the Other in historical gothic fiction
• Farzana S. Islam – Bridges: Space and belonging in hybrid culture poetry
• Feth-Ella Mahi – Poststructuralism and the Algerian diasporic postcolonial novel
• Anjum Malik – Hidden Histories: Writing Black Britain (PhD by publication )
• Amal Mazouz – Muslim Women through the Eyes of the West in contemporary travel writing
• Nahla Raffaoui – Contemporary Afro-Caribbean women’s writing
• Ali Shannon – Middle Eastern Gothic: Birth of the Arab Monster
• Samia Sikadir – The Black Decade and Algerian women’s writing

Research Degrees in English and Creative Writing