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English Literature Undergraduate Degrees 2021
Contents
05 Welcome
06 Everything you want from an
English Literature degree
08 Degrees and entry
requirements
09 Teaching, assessment
and study abroad
10 Modules
12 Full-unit modules
14 Half-unit modules
16 Joint degrees with
English Literature
18 Meet our staff
2 20 Life on your degree
3
22 Your future career
Get in touch
Department of English Literature & Creative Writing
County College
Lancaster University
LA1 4YD
United Kingdom
E: englishugadmissions@lancaster.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1524 592129
www.lancaster.ac.uk/english-literature
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Cover image shows students at Lancaster Castle in Lancaster city.
www.lancaster.ac.uk/english-literatureWelcome
Professor Sharon Ruston
Head of Department
Studying English Literature at Lancaster employability modules, are highly sought
University is an exciting, varied and after by employers, and our graduates
stimulating experience. The subject go on to careers in teaching, publishing,
is taught by leading scholars whose media, business, and many other fields.
research advances knowledge of our
The Department offers a rich, creative
culture and heritage.
environment in which to undertake your
We offer a firm grounding in all periods of studies. Members of staff lead reading
literature from the Middle Ages through groups, organise public lectures and
4 to the twenty-first century. Some of our special workshops, arrange theatre 5
areas of research specialism include visits, and ensure that our students
literature and science, literature and make the most of our proximity to the
religion, literature and politics, Gothic historic city of Lancaster by organising
literature, science fiction, graphic drama productions at venues such
fiction, literature and maps, literature as Lancaster Castle. Our students
in performance, and literature’s contribute to the lively departmental
intersections with other media. Our culture by coordinating writing groups,
teaching is shaped by this lively performing readings, and running the
and diverse research culture. journals Flash, Lux and Cake.
A degree in English Literature from Whether you take English Literature
Lancaster prepares you well for a variety on its own, with Creative Writing or in
of interesting careers: we are ranked combination with other subjects, you will
joint 8th for English graduate prospects benefit from studying in the Department
in the Complete University Guide 2021. alongside many award-winning writers
The skills that you learn in research, producing the literature of today,
analysing, and interpreting texts, including poets Paul Muldoon and Paul
creative problem-solving, presenting Farley, and novelist Jenn Ashworth.
your ideas orally and in writing, as well
I hope that you will choose to join us.
as practical skills developed in our
www.lancaster.ac.uk/english-literatureEverything you want from an
English Literature degree #3
For Research Power
We are behind only Oxford and Cambridge in the
2014 Research Excellence Framework. You will be
taught from day one by leading academics.
Flexibility and choice Placements and study abroad
#8
We offer flexible pathways and a very large You can gain useful work experience
number of optional modules. You can study through a placement in a culture, heritage
English Literature on its own, or combine it or creative industries organisation or a
with Creative Writing or a wide range of other school, and expand your horizons via
subjects. study abroad or our vacation travel
opportunities.
Specialisms
Module options include the latest literature Festivals and events Joint 8th for English graduate prospects
– even work published in the past few years – We participate in a wide range of local Complete University Guide 2021
and we specialise in Gothic, Post-apocalyptic literary festivals and events. As part of
6 and Sci-Fi. our Shakespeare teaching we have held 7
#9
workshops in Lancaster Castle.
Wordsworth Centre
The Department is home to the world- Links to the Lake District
renowned Wordsworth Centre for the study We have strong links to the historic and
of poetry. cultural heritage of the region including
our close proximity to the Lake District,
inspiration to writers of all genres.
For English
Times and Sunday Times Good
University Guide 2020
- The Lake District National
Park
www.lancaster.ac.uk/english-literatureDegrees and Teaching
he core of your English Literature teaching will
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Dissertation
In your final year, you will work one-to-one with
entry requirements
be in seminars where you will discuss the texts a supervisor, planning, researching and writing
and topics under consideration on your module. a dissertation on a topic of your choice.
Seminars are supported by lectures. Typically,
each module will have a weekly lecture and
seminar, but this may vary for some modules. You Study abroad
will also be invited to meet with your tutors on
an individual basis to discuss any questions and The study of English Literature can be enhanced
receive personal support and guidance to help you by examining literatures in English produced
Degree Award Duration UCAS code Typical offer
get the most from your degree. in other national contexts, such as the USA,
English Literature BA (Hons) 3 years Q300 AAB Canada, and Australia, or by learning how other
All of our staff are research-active and many make Europeans view the English literary tradition.
English Literature, Creative Writing and Practice BA (Hons) 3 years QW38 AAB significant contributions to their specialist fields You can apply to study abroad for a year at one
with research published in the form of books, of our partner universities in Australia, Canada,
English Literature with Creative Writing BA (Hons) 3 years Q3W8 AAB chapters and articles. Our staff specialise in areas Denmark, Switzerland or the USA. Living in another
from medieval literature to contemporary Gothic, country and studying English Literature from a
English Literature and History BA (Hons) 3 years QV31 AAB from Romantic poetry to postcolonial writing. different perspective benefits you, both in terms of
These research interests shape our teaching. enhancing your understanding of the subject
English Literature and Philosophy BA (Hons) 3 years QV35 AAB and preparing you for life after university.
Distinguished Professor Terry Eagleton visits
regularly, offering a range of sessions from
English Language and Literature BA (Hons) 3 years Q302 AAB public talks to undergraduate lectures to
postgraduate seminars. Vacation travel
Film and English Literature BA (Hons) 3 years PQ33 AAB
You can also discover the world in the Easter
Lancaster University has been awarded the
and summer vacation periods with our short
Chinese Studies and English Literature BA (Hons) 4 years T1Q3 AAB highest possible score in the UK government’s
trips to destinations around the globe.
2017 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)
During the summer, we typically run three-week
French Studies and English Literature BA (Hons) 4 years RQ13 AAB ratings. Our TEF Gold rating is based on high
trips, to destinations such as Malaysia, India,
quality teaching, excellent teaching facilities and
Ghana and China. These trips include meeting
8 German Studies and English Literature BA (Hons) 4 years RQ23 AAB the good careers our graduates attain.
local businesses, academic study and cultural 9
discovery. In the Easter vacation, we typically
Spanish Studies and English Literature BA (Hons) 4 years RQ43 AAB
offer a ten-day trip to New York and Boston in
which you join fellow students and lecturers from
Theatre and English Literature BA (Hons) 3 years WQ43 AAB
your faculty to take part in academic, cultural
and personal development activities. For a
Contact hours classroom-based experience, you can also attend
Typically, you can expect to be in class for around summer schools delivered by one of our many
nine hours a week in your first year, depending on overseas partner universities.
Placement year degrees which modules you sign up for. Classroom contact Find out more:
time is similar in your second and third years. www.lancaster.ac.uk/your-global-experience
Check online for the correct UCAS codes to apply for a placement year degree, which are available with most of our You will have set reading for each of these
programmes. With specialist support and dedicated modules, you will apply for a professional, paid work placement in Year 3 classes, so this results in a full, though flexible,
and return to Lancaster to complete your degree in Year 4. Find out more: www.lancaster.ac.uk/placement-year study schedule.
On our joint degrees with Chinese, French, German or Spanish Studies, you will spend your third year studying or working Beyond the course curriculum
abroad on an international placement year. here is an extensive range of extra-curricular
T
Assessment activities and field trips. Some are organised
Study abroad degrees by staff, such as public lectures, reading groups,
ost year-long modules are assessed by
M or visits to the theatre; others are organised by
a combination of coursework and end-of-year students, such as open mic nights on campus.
You can apply for a study abroad year when you arrive at Lancaster. On our 3-year study abroad degrees you spend Year 2 examinations, although some modules have
studying at one of our international partner universities. Find out more: www.lancaster.ac.uk/study-abroad See page 20 for details.
no examinations. When you submit a piece of
coursework, we will typically get it back to you,
graded and with comments from your tutor, within
four weeks. Some modules include innovative
assessment methods: the second-year Literature
For information on fees, scholarships and any additional costs you might and Film course, for example, includes a creative
need to consider, please see our website: www.lancaster.ac.uk/study project as part of its final assessment.
www.lancaster.ac.uk/english-literatureModules
BA (Hons) English Literature
The study of English Literature at Lancaster gives you a broad engagement with the English
literary tradition and the chance to experience some of the latest research in new topics and Year 2
innovative approaches to study. From the outset, you will study literature from a range of different
historical periods, both pre- and post-1800, from different literary movements and different
national and cultural contexts. We also help you to think more systematically about different ways
CORE OPTIONAL OPTIONAL
of approaching the reading of these texts.
The Theory and Select one of these two Select two further modules
Experiencing a wide range of different kinds of writing in your first year – drama, fiction, poetry and Practice of Criticism pre-1800 modules from the list below
film, contemporary as well as historical – allows you to make informed choices about the direction
you want to take in your second and third years.
You will reflect on your approach Late Medieval to Early American Literature to 1900
to the study of literature. You Modern Literature
We keep our degree programmes under constant review, and regularly introduce and update will examine key concepts in
What do we mean by ‘American
modules. In any academic year, the modules offered may therefore differ from those presented contemporary literary studies You will examine the literature of a Literature’ and how do we define
America and ‘the American
here. Similarly, the structure of our degrees may change, in response to curricular developments such as ideology, the unconscious, century of revolutionary change,
both in politics and culture. experience’? How has American
and following consultation with students. Please check our website for the latest information: discourse, and biopolitics through
Literature evolved from its colonial
the work of major thinkers such as The focus is generically and
www.lancaster.ac.uk/study historically wide-ranging, from origins? You will answer these
Marx, Freud, Foucault and Derrida.
Spenser’s provocative Elizabethan questions by engaging with many
verse epic The Faerie Queene, to different voices, many conflicting
the brilliant and edgy theatre of the and contrasting views, a diversity of
complex experiences, and a great
Year 1
likes of Christopher Marlowe, Ben
Jonson, and the prose writings of range of writing in form and style.
CORE
revolutionaries like John Milton
Beyond English Literature and monarchist libertines like Literature, Film and Media
(non-credit bearing) Aphra Behn. This module surveys formal,
10 CORE OPTIONAL OPTIONAL British Romanticism
generic, historical, cultural,
narrative, and theoretical
11
English Literature World Literature Creative Writing This is a rolling programme of This module provides a well- relationships between literature
employability-focused events rounded sense of Romanticism, and film across a range of periods,
offered to students in the a movement that includes the genres, topics and cultures,
Department. It will enhance your poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, examining the practice and
A broad range of literature is You will explore a wide and exciting The basic techniques of prose and existing knowledge of careers, and Shelley, but also relates to the analysis of literary film adaptation.
addressed, from the Middle Ages range of texts from world literatures poetry will be examined. Divided employability and graduate development of Gothic writing We will also study some other
to the contemporary period. This in English that have influenced the into two parts, ‘Approaching Writing’ research possibilities once you and to the novels of Jane Austen. modes of literary adaptation, such
module is a taster of famous and development of English Literature, and ‘Putting it into Practice’, each complete your degree. Themes of politics and poetics as television or graphic novels.
less well known texts through the including the Bible and classical is assessed by a portfolio of and of imagination and identity Questions of originality, authorship
Renaissance, Victorian, Romantic, writers such as Ovid, Homer, and your work. will be examined across a range and intertextuality will be addressed
and modern periods, and of Dante. You’ll look at modern world of texts. across the module as a whole.
the many and varied possible authors in translation, like Kafka,
approaches to reading literature. and at today’s culture through Victorian Literature
You will be introduced to the key contemporary authors such as What is a ‘Victorian attitude’?
debates in literary study and given Salman Rushdie and Mariama Bâ, We will address this question
a foundation in the skills, tools, and as well as new media writing and by examining the role played by
knowledge that can open up new the graphic novel. literature in the defining cultural
and exciting ways of reading. debates of the time concerning,
progress, science, religion, and
OR OR gender. You will examine a wide
range of Victorian literature,
including novels, poetry, short
stories, drama, social criticism,
OPTIONAL OPTIONAL travel writing and children’s fiction.
Minor module Minor module
You can select a module in another subject to complement your studies in
English Literature. Your department will provide a list of minor module options
prior to starting your studies at Lancaster, along with information on how to
register for your preferred choice.
www.lancaster.ac.uk/english-literatureModules
BA (Hons) English Literature
Year 3
OPTIONAL
CORE
Select modules from the list below
Dissertation
and on pages 14-15.
This is a long essay on a subject of your choice. It could You can choose to study:
be something that caught your attention earlier on in + 1 full-unit module plus 4 half-unit modules
the degree that you want to approach in more depth,
perhaps, or a long-standing enthusiasm that you would OR
like to study in a more systematic and focused way. + 2 full-unit modules plus 2 half-unit modules
Whatever you choose, you will be helped by regular
supervision from a member of staff.
Full-unit
12 13
modules
Modernism towards Post-modernism Contemporary Literature in English
You will look at a range of experimental Anglo- You will encounter the explosion of new literatures
American writing from the early twentieth from the decolonising/newly post-colonial world
century – the period of modernism proper – to the and the rise of new literary forms in the post-
emergent post-modernism of the 1960s. Through war period. The module foregrounds literature
close examination of path-breaking works from in English in its international dimensions, from
T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and Wallace Stevens South Asia and the Caribbean, as well as from
through to Samuel Beckett and Thomas Pynchon, multicultural and devolved Britain. Recurrent
you will examine the meaning and usefulness of themes include margins, haunting, migration,
two of the most powerful aesthetic concepts of and metamorphosis. Texts may include
the last century. Achebe, Things Fall Apart; Selvon, The Lonely
Londoners; Atwood, Oryx and Crake; Coupland,
Shakespeare Hey Nostradamus!
This module examines Shakespearean drama in
its own time, as a platform on which early modern
debates about agency and government, family,
and national identity were put into play.
By examining texts from across Shakespeare’s
career, we will explore their power to shape
thoughts and feelings in their own age but also in
ours. Texts might include Julius Caesar, Twelfth
Night, Henry IV Part I, King Lear, and The Tempest.
www.lancaster.ac.uk/english-literatureHalf-unit
modules
Half-unit modules are typically designed around the current research of members of
staff, so are subject to frequent changes. This list, therefore, is offered as a snapshot
of some of our current modules rather than as an indication of what will be running in
future years.
Work Placement: Culture,
Heritage and the Creative Industries
In Year 3 there are opportunities to undertake an
Postcolonial Environments Victorian Gothic assessed work placement module in the Lent term.
The placement takes place at a relevant host
This module explores how postcolonial writing In the Victorian period, the decaying castles,
organisation, with typically 30-40 hours spent on
grapples with environmental change, crisis and corrupt priests, and ancestral curses that were
placement. Previous students have been placed
collapse. You will read a wide range of twentieth so prominent in the first phase of the Gothic novel
at organisations such as publishers, museums,
and twenty-first century literature from places gave way to an increased emphasis on spectral
newspapers, heritage sites, and arts venues.
such as South Africa, Nigeria, Israel/Palestine, and monstrous others: ghosts, werewolves,
and indigenous North America, and therefore vampires, mummies, and other creatures of
develop an understanding of modern and the night. You will explore these phenomena in To demonstrate the full range and diversity of
contemporary postcolonial/world literatures, and their historical, cultural and literary contexts,
the environmental sensibilities they articulate with particular focus on emerging discourses of
our modules, here is an indicative list of half-
and contest. Topics may include land, enclosure, gender, sexuality, colonialism and class. unit modules offered in an academic year:
waste, toxicity, climate change, and urban space.
+ 21st-Century Theory
Women Writers + Between the Acts
Jane Austen Virginia Woolf famously asked ‘what would have + The Bible and Literature
This module will give you the opportunity to happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully + Children in Horror Fiction and Film
study all the major works of one of the most
14 celebrated novelists in English literary history.
gifted sister?’ and went on to explore the obstacles
+ Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature 15
to literary success encountered by women writers.
It will combine close attention to the stylistic This module follows Woolf’s lead by seeking to + Jane Austen
textures and narrative strategies of Jane Austen’s redress the historical marginalisation of women + Literary Film Adaptations: Hollywood 1939
fiction with broader consideration of key themes writers in the English literary canon through an + Literature and Religion at the Fin-de-Siècle
and preoccupations such as friendship, desire, exploration of how women have come to writing
matchmaking, snobbery, illness, resistance, at different historical moments, what they have + Literature and the Visual Arts
transgression and secrecy. chosen to write, and how. + Postcolonial Environments
+ Premodern Gothic
+ Private and Public Performances of Self in
Science Fiction Schools Volunteering Module Medieval Literature and Drama
This module will trace the development of science Experience teaching and classroom practice
+ Science Fiction in Literature and Film
fiction (SF) in literature and film, providing an first-hand, at either primary or secondary level,
insight into the conventions of the genre and, in in a local school during the Lent Term. The 10- + Urban Gothic in 20th and 21st Century Fiction
particular, how the key themes of the SF genre week part-time placement will involve classroom + Victorian Gothic
have been successfully adapted for the screen. It observation and teacher assistance, and, in most + Victorian Popular Fiction
will encompass narratives of time travel, evolution cases, an opportunity to teach the class or to
work with a designated group of pupils. You will + Women Writers of Britain and America
and temporal dislocation, and will consider
questions of human subjectivity, gender, race, have the chance to develop skills around a special + Work Placement: Culture, Heritage and the
transcendence, love and loss. project or activity carried out in the school related Creative Industries
to the teaching of English. The module is currently + Work Placement: Schools Volunteering
assessed by an end-of-term essay.
www.lancaster.ac.uk/english-literatureJoint degrees
with English Literature
In addition to combining English Literature with Creative Writing (see Creative Writing booklet),
you can study English Literature as part of a joint major degree with the following subjects:
+ Chinese Studies + History
+ English Language + Philosophy
+ Film + Spanish Studies
+ French Studies + Theatre
+ German Studies
Year 1
CORE CORE OPTIONAL
English Literature Joint major core module Select 1 module from:
+ English Literature module World
Literature
+ Joint major department module
16 + Minor module in another
department
17
From storytelling
Year 2
to cyber security
CORE CORE OPTIONAL
The Theory and Joint major core and Select 1 English
Practice of Criticism optional modules Literature module Studying English Literature After completing my bachelors, has proven to me time and time
at Lancaster University was I decided to do a MSc in again to be not so far apart. As
amazing. The teaching staff and Information Technology, part of my training at IBM I was
fellow students were and are Management and Organisational invited to a workshop around
still today inspiring. A highlight Change at Lancaster University ‘the art of story telling’. Without
Year 3 of my time during my bachelors Management School. The skills stories we lack the ability to
was being invited to study that I learnt from my English communicate effectively, to
African American Literature in literature degree, for example empathise with others and to
Paris on a three-day conference how to comprehend diverse view the world from different
OPTIONAL OPTIONAL with Lancaster University and texts, write and communicate lenses whether that be
Select modules in English Literature Joint major core and optional modules the University of Lausanne. effectively, have all proved to philosophical, psychological,
This trip was amazing and be valuable throughout my political or historical. English
really contextualised a lot of academic and work life. Literature has provided me
the literature I was studying. with a solid set of skills that
You can find out more about English Literature module Visit www.lancaster.ac.uk/study to find out more
options on pages 12-15. about your joint degree module options. I studied a diverse range of I now work for IBM as a Cyber will continued to be utilised on
literature from Middle East, Security Technical Specialist. a daily basis throughout my
Contemporary, Renaissance Although the world of working career.
to Science Fiction and I even technology and cyber security
Samia Durrani
did a stint teaching English at a may seem to be far removed
BA (Hons) English Literature,
secondary school. from the world of literature, it
graduated 2018
www.lancaster.ac.uk/english-literatureMeet our
staff
I’ve always been a reader of All kinds of imaginative literature My research is on modern wonderful comic novel that got
popular genres: Stephen King’s is about understanding the fiction, a field that I define, me thinking about when, where
Brian Baker horror novels (the ones my
Mum didn’t drop in the bath,
world not as it is presented
to us, but as how it might be, Michael Greaney
very broadly, as anything from
1800 to the present day. I feel
and how fictional characters
sleep – and about the meanings
Senior Lecturer that is), crime thrillers and
police procedurals, spy novels,
in terms of dreams, fears, or
hopes. Whatever I teach here Senior Lecturer
lucky to work on what I would
do anyway for pleasure – read
that they attach both to their
sleep and to the sleep of
in English and and science fiction, of course,
always science fiction.
at Lancaster, and whatever
students study, thinking
in English novels – but equally lucky to
be doing this work in such a
others. It was one of our own
students who tipped me off
Creative Writing Literatures of the imagination differently is always vital. stimulating intellectual context about Coe’s novel, some years
have been my thing since my + Publications include: as Lancaster. I’ve worked ago; I’m still grateful for his
Dad and I read 2000AD comic Contemporary Masculinities extensively on Joseph Conrad recommendation.
together. Future cities, weird in Fiction, Film and Television and on contemporary fiction, ublications include: Sleep
+ P
goings on, robots, alternative (2015); Iain Sinclair 1945-2000 and my most recent book is a and the Novel (2018), Conrad,
histories, secrets, worlds within (2007) study of the way human sleep is Language and Narrative (2002)
worlds within worlds. You might represented in fiction.
want to call it escapism, but The origins of this latest book
I would prefer ‘seeing things are in my response to Jonathan
differently’, off-kilter, if you like. Coe’s The House of Sleep, a
When I was at school I was never to The Wordsworth Trust where Nearly all of my childhood immediately fascinated by the
18 top of my class or even a good most of the manuscripts are adventures took place via Elizabethan epic. Almost all of 19
“all-rounder” but I was nearly held. I love my job, my subject the written word. Saturday my subsequent research - which
Liz Oakley-Brown afternoons were often spent includes English translations
Sally Bushell
always top in English. Back then and communicating it to others.
it seemed like a disadvantage Every day I know that I am doing with the boarders at Elinor of Ovid, embodiment, outlawry
to only be really good at one exactly what I was born to do Senior Lecturer Brent-Dyer’s Chalet School and queenship - can be linked
Professor of thing but in the long run it turned and that is an extraordinary series and I was inspired by Jo to this compelling poem and I
in Shakespeare March’s writerly ambitions in remain completely captivated by
Romantic and out pretty well. So for me this privilege.
subject always called me to + Publications include: Text as and Renaissance Louisa May Alcott’s novels. Tudor writing and its particular
Victorian Literature it, right from the start. I first Process: Creative Composition
My one act of rebellion at school examination of what it is to be
realised I was a Romanticist in Wordsworth, Tennyson Writing involved the confiscation of human.
and a Wordsworthian when I The Man Who Fell to Earth when
and Emily Dickinson (2009); + Publications include:
visited the Lake District aged I should have been reading Shakespeare and the
Re-Reading The Excursion:
17 whilst I was studying The Great Expectations. Translation of Identity in
Narrative, Response and the
Prelude at A Level and had the Wordsworthian Dramatic
My teenage passion for Thomas Early Modern England (2011);
same kind of feelings all over Hardy’s writing underpinned The Rituals and Rhetoric
Voice’ (2002)
again about a landscape that my desire to study for a of Queenship: Medieval to
is also a deeply literary place. degree in English Literature. Early Modern (with Louise
Lancaster is the perfect place However, as a second-year Wilkinson; 2009)
for me because of its location undergraduate at Cardiff
so close to the Lake District and University I took a course which
included Edmund Spenser’s
The Faerie Queene and I was
www.lancaster.ac.uk/english-literatureLife on your
degree
Beyond the course curriculum Volunteering and the Lancaster Award
You can take part in an extensive range of The Lancaster Award is a non-academic
extracurricular activities and field trips. certificate developed in partnership with
Some are organised by staff, such as public employers to help you make the most of
lectures, reading groups, or visits to the your time at Lancaster and to demonstrate
theatre; others are organised by students. the skills you have developed along the
Here are some examples of previous way. It is designed to reward the wide range
student-led activities: of volunteering activities and placements
undertaken by many of our undergraduates.
20 + Set up reading and writing groups
Potential employers increasingly value a
21
exploring a wide range of creative
and critical interests profile that includes more than just strong After a Faculty of Arts and Social up my CV, and by becoming an
academic results, and the Lancaster Award Sciences placement helped editor of both Cake magazine
+ Taken a student production of The
recognises and validates this. me to gain an internship in two and Flash journal, I learned skills
Canterbury Tales to the Edinburgh Festival
Find out more: northern publishing houses, that were massively helpful in
+ Attended guest readings of poets and www.lancaster.ac.uk/lancaster-award I am now Sales & Production my current role. I also can’t
writers such as Vahni Capildeo,
Manager at Comma Press. In commend enough the guidance
AJ Blakemore, Paul McVeigh and PJ Harvey Student-run journals
my role at Comma, I oversee the of my tutors, for helping me gain
+ Attended and organised monthly literary We have three in-house, student-run, entire production process of confidence in myself and my
salons with nationally and internationally creative writing journals. The print publication our books, liaising with printers skills and giving me one-to-one
acclaimed authors in Lancaster city centre Cake publishes poetry, flash fiction, and and designers, proofreading, time to talk. I took part in the
under the auspices of ‘Stories at the Storey’
+ Made major contributions to the
reviews of work from established poets and
newcomers alike. Flash is an undergraduate-
run journal which publishes fiction, poetry,
A dream copy-editing and converting all
titles into eBooks. In my sales
role I deal with distributors,
Lancaster Career Mentoring
Scheme, and having someone in
the industry helping me tailor
graduate
volunteering programmes of Lancaster
University Students’ Union critical and hybrid work by current Lancaster wholesalers, booksellers my CV and applications for
undergraduates. LUX is an interdisciplinary and so on, and produce sales different job descriptions really
+ Made a short promotional film about life in journal that seeks to showcase incisive
job for
material such as catalogues helped me when interviewing
the Department and original work from students across the and presentations. My role for the internships I was later
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. also includes planning and offered. I’m so lucky because I
Becca
overseeing all live events, book have such a varied role. Working
launches and author in a small, dedicated team at an
appearances. I have co-edited indie press in the North was my
two collections of stories in dream graduate job and now,
translation, The Book happily, is my actual job!
of Tbilisi and The Book of Riga.
Becca Parkinson
Having such an active literary Sales and Production Manager,
scene within the English Comma Press, Manchester
Department at Lancaster BA (Hons) English Literature,
definitely helped me build graduated in 2016
www.lancaster.ac.uk/english-literatureYour future Where will your
career degree take you?
Placements and internships Preparing you for your career Employers have always valued the critical and analytical skills that
students develop when they study English, as well as their ability to
Throughout your degree, we encourage you to gain A degree in English Literature can underpin many
write in a lucid and focused manner. This can be seen in the excellent
work experience that helps give you a head start careers and we recognise the need to think ahead
employment record of graduates of this department.
in your chosen career. A wide range of placements to life after graduation. ‘Beyond Undergraduate
and internship opportunities are available, English Literature’ is a careers-focused module
including credit-bearing modules that provide that provides a rolling programme of events
work experience in creative, cultural and heritage designed to enhance your knowledge of careers,
Our recent graduates are working in an exciting range of jobs:
organisations or schools. You can read more about employability and graduate research possibilities.
these on pages 14-15. We also offer the option of It offers professional development workshops on
+ Public Relations Executive + Publishing House Sales and
a placement year with the majority of our degrees, employability-related matters, including bespoke
Production Manager
which will boost your employability. talks by the University’s + English as a Foreign Language
Careers Department, as well as visits from Teacher + Marketing Co-ordinator
Placement year degrees potential employers and alumni of the Department.
+ Digital Marketing Executive + Social Media Officer
On our placement year degrees you apply
to conduct a year of paid, professional work Careers service + Bid Writer for a Charity + Teacher Training – English
experience between your second and final year of Both during your degree and after you graduate
study. Lancaster University students have worked we provide dedicated, specialist support. + Copywriter
with companies as diverse as Johnson + Johnson, The University Careers Service has connections
Warner Bros, Microsoft, Marks & Spencer, and Walt with some of the world’s top graduate recruiters,
Disney. We support you with specialist staff and high growth businesses and employers across Postgraduate study
22 dedicated preparation modules. every sector, and organises careers fairs, 23
workshops, and networking opportunities
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences throughout the year. You can be matched with an A degree from Lancaster will equip you to pursue your academic
internship scheme employer or a previous graduate for one-to-one studies further. Every year a number of our graduates elect to
advice and take part in a range of workshops such continue their studies with us, choosing from a range of Masters
These internships take place during the
as writing a brilliant CV, developing a LinkedIn degrees in English literary studies.
summer vacation and part-time during term time.
They provide work experience in small and medium profile or succeeding at psychometric testing.
#8
sized businesses as well as third sector and not- We also have a vast range of online resources as
for-profit organisations. Past employers have well as an exclusive job search portal.
included Carnegie Publishing, The Dukes Theatre, Find out more: www.lancaster.ac.uk/careers
British Red Cross, Institute for Strategic Dialogue
and the National Trust, with roles ranging from
marketing and PR to specific research projects.
Find out more: www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass-
placements
Joint 8th for English graduate prospects
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