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Birkbeck’s MA Contemporary Literature and Culture offers students the opportunity of specializing in 21st century literature and culture, as well as exposing them to the most important literary and theoretical developments of the last few decades. This MA includes consideration of the philosophical legacy of postmodernism, the effects of new technologies on narrative form, and the aesthetic, spatial and political coordinates of writing produced in an increasingly networked and globalized world.
Through a range of literary and interdisciplinary options, students have the opportunity to pursue their own interests, whether they lie in exciting developments in contemporary poetics, in US, British, or postcolonial literatures, in contemporary theoretical approaches to art or in socio-historical approaches to the literary and cultural constructions of vectors such as nation, race, diaspora, gender, sexuality and class. The MA provides a comprehensive programme of study that covers the aesthetic, historical and political dimensions of contemporary literature and culture.
Core staff teaching on this MA: Caroline Edwards, Anna Hartnell, Joe Brooker, Roger Luckhurst, Carol Watts, Esther Leslie, Joanne Winning, Mpalive Msiska, Stephen Clucas, Heike Bauer.
Why study this course at Birkbeck?
This course introduces you to the cutting-edge of contemporary literature and culture, offering the unique opportunity to specialize in the post-2000 period.
It also provides grounding in some of the key concepts that shape understandings of the contemporary world, including consideration of terms like hybridity, performance, trauma, memory and the uncanny, as well as wider cultural conceptualisations like globalization and postcoloniality.
Finally, our MA exposes you to a wider community of scholars and thinkers via a uniquely rich and diverse research culture, involving graduate seminars, reading groups, conferences, guest lectures – including those by practising writers – and the wider arts network accessible in Bloomsbury and central London.
In particular, this environment is fostered by close links between the MA and the Centre for Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, which runs a wide variety of talks and conferences in this field. The programme also has access to a host of other relevant research centres in the School of Arts, including the Centre for Contemporary Poetics, the Centre for Contemporary Theatre and the Centre for the History and Theory of Photography.
The School is also actively involved in a number of College-wide Institutes specifically designed to foster work across disciplines at Birkbeck and beyond: Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, Birkbeck Institute for Gender and Sexuality Studies and Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. These Institutes are driven by the work of world-class scholars including Laura Mulvey, Slavoj Žižek, Lynne Segal and David Feldman.
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