Why study English at Brunel?

Study English at Brunel and you’ll join one of the most vibrant, innovative and diverse departments in the UK.

Are you ready to explore more widely, think more deeply, and engage more critically, creatively, and confidently with the world via the written word? If so, you've come to the right place. 

Driven by your imagination and ambition, directed by our passion and expertise, your learning journey will be as unique as you are. Drawing on our own cutting-edge research, our bespoke learning programmes offer an up-to-the-minute approach to the study of literature. By engaging with a broad range of fiction, stories, plays, poetry, and life writing from different gendered-, class-, and race-aware angles, you will develop knowledge and skills that will prepare you for a variety of exciting careers.  

We also understand the impact of English literature on a global scale, so whether it’s through one of our study abroad opportunities or the nature of the course where you’ll be taken on a ‘world tour’ of language and literature, you can explore ideas, styles and key texts at an international level. 

If you join us as an undergraduate on our three-year BA degree programme, you will spend your first year building your academic skills, your second year developing your academic interests, and your third year honing these interests by creating your own curriculum. Our four-year BA degree programme offers the same, with a one-year work placement built in. Throughout both programmes, sessions focusing on employability, taught by experts, will prepare you to transfer your knowledge and skills to the workplace or further study. 

If you join us as a taught postgraduate on our one-year MA programme, you will develop skills relevant to literary studies by exploring texts from a wide range of genres and periods, before pursuing self-directed study on a topic of your choice.  

If you join us as a PhD student, you will work closely with a committed supervisory team in a research-intensive, supportive environment. 

For further information about what we offer, or if you have any questions, please contact our Co-Admissions Tutors, Dr Kate Houlden (Kate.Houlden@brunel.ac.uk) and Dr Ellie Reed (Ellie.Reed@Brunel.ac.uk). We look forward to hearing from you.  

Study English at Brunel