This interdisciplinary programme addresses the study of the literature and culture of the Anglophone colonial and postcolonial world and is complemented by seminars on the Iberian and Francophone empires, to give a truly global and crossdisciplinary perspective, embracing theory, history, literature and language, as well as cultural analysis. Although you are encouraged to work on 20th century and contemporary postcolonial texts and issues, Glasgow possesses particular strengths in the literature and culture of the colonial period from 1500-1900.
The MLitt has three main components.
The compulsory core course is taught over two ten-week teaching periods, from October to December and January to March. In the first semester, seminars will focus on themes:
* Recent developments in colonial discourse theory
* Issues of race, slavery and creolisation
* Questions of empire and literary genre.
In the second semester, seminars will focus on theatres, investigating a variety of regional case-studies, from Scotland and Ireland through Latin America, Africa and the French Atlantic, to India and the Pacific.
Both parts of the core course are designed to provide an historical and geographical overview of the subject area, in order to provide the context for detailed work on individual texts, authors and themes.
You are required to take three elective courses, which are linked to other faculty programmes, and taught in five or ten-week blocks. You can choose from a wide range of options, such as:
* Constructing Scotland through romantic orientalism
* Migration and exile in Latin America
* The Nigerian novel.
The second half of the programme, from April to September, is dedicated to individual dissertation work, under the guidance of an assigned supervisor. You are also required to attend a course in research training methods.