About English, PhD - at Queen's University Belfast

English offers pathways in Literary Studies, Creative Writing or Language and Linguistics. Proposals are welcomed in all areas from Medieval to Modern. Areas of expertise in a School that brings together award-winning writers and critics working across British, Irish and American Literature include Poetry; Irish Literature; American Literature; Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies; Literature and Place; Culture, Geography and Identity, from the local to the global, from earliest writing to the contemporary; Literature, Crime and Conflict; and, Science, Medicine and Culture. The School's Centre for the Americas, its involvement in the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Institute of Irish Studies, and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry - an internationally-recognised centre of excellence for the study and production of literature - mean that your project in literary studies, creative writing or linguistics will be supported by dynamic research groups and experts in the field. Details of current staff expertise can be found on the School of Arts, English and Languages website. Mode of study/duration Registration is on a full-time or part-time basis, under the direction of a supervisory team appointed by the University. You will be expected to submit your thesis at the end of three years of full-time registration for PhD (or part-time equivalent). Research students are encouraged to play a full and active role in the professional and research activities of the School. These include:]

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