NUI Galway, English Department

The English Department is one of the largest and liveliest in the university. We have 20 members of staff, and over 1000 undergraduate students. We have an average of 45 students enrolled in our taught MA programmes each year, and currently have 38 PhD students. In addition, each semester we welcome over 250 students from overseas.

The Department has an active research staff engaged in projects across the full range of literary history, from medieval and early modern to contemporary. Particular research strengths lie in Chaucerian studies, theatre, Irish studies, women's writing, editing, post/colonial studies, travel, and periodical literature. The Department is committed to integrating its research interests and its teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, in particular through its three taught MA programmes and its contributions to multi-disciplinary programmes. There are currently 38 doctoral students and their work concentrates on the areas of theatre history and policy; a digital edition of the works of Thomas Moore; Irish nationalist culture; book history; medieval concepts of chivalry; eighteenth-century and modern poetry. The Department works closely with the Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, and mentors four post-doctoral researchers in Irish writing; literary journalism; cinema; and periodical literature.

Our undergraduate courses are intended to guide students through a very wide range of literature and other forms of communication. We teach courses on literature from the middle ages to the present, and from nearly all the English-speaking countries of the world. Students can also study contemporary forms of communication such cinema and media. We regularly host a writer-in-residence and several visiting scholars, and also offer an Evening Degree/Diploma in English http://www.nuigalway.ie/adulteducation/programmes/ba_2006.html.

Our postgraduate programmes allow students to extend and refine their critical interests. We offer three one-year taught programmes: MA in Literature and Publishing, the MA in Drama and Theatre Studies, and the MA in Writing. We also contribute to three multi-disciplinary programmes: MA in Culture and Colonialism, MA in Irish Studies and MA in Medieval Studies.

Studying English involves asking fascinating questions about literature and its many relationships to culture, history and society. Such study fosters a creative and inquiring mind, and develops your analytic and communicative skills. 

All students should adopt the MLA Style of citation. Copies of the latest guidelines are in the Library. Students may purchase Tory Young’s Studying English Literature which contains examples of the MLA style.

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Click here for details on the Department's Plagiarism Policy: http://www.nuigalway.ie/english/plagiarism.html

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