English
Combine traditional English literature studies with areas such as comics, theatre, film, and creative writing
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Our research ranges from Scotland to North America, from the Caribbean to Africa, and beyond. We combine tradition with innovation, offering modules from Victorian fiction to science fiction, comics, film adaptation, and much more besides. You can combine English with Film or Creative Writing, with an emphasis on applied skills such as editing and reviewing.
Our courses cover a variety of topics including:
- 18th-century, romantic and Victorian poetry and fiction
- modernism
- 20th- and 21st-century literature, culture and film
- comics and graphic novels
- post-colonial literature and theory
- American literature
- Scottish literature
- women's writing
- theatre studies
Stories
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New comic calls for improved menopause support in the workplace
The Universities of Dundee and Aberdeen have devised a creative way to educate the public and employers about the impacts of menopause – which could help more than 13 million women living with symptoms in the UK.
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Creative Writing at University of Dundee ranked in Top 5 in the UK
Dr Johanna Linsley, Lecturer in Creative Practice, writes about the English & Creative Writing programme, highlighting its blend of literary training, creative opportunities, and industry partnerships
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A Fragile Correspondence: Creative Writing Residency at V&A Dundee
Between February and March 2025, six University of Dundee Humanities students were selected to be writers-in-residence at the V&A Dundee
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New Scriptorium Anthology: Creative Writing
The Anthology showcases work students explored the relationship between place and writing through prose, poetry, and drama inspired by history, community, and environment
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Gothic literature conference no scare story for Dundee economy
Dundee’s literary past will provide a financial boost to the city’s present as it prepares to host a major event.
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Book examines how to share Scotland’s story of empire and slavery
A researcher from the University of Dundee has produced a new book exploring how to tell Scotland’s history in the context of calls to decolonise institutions and curricula
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Comic editor draws from family experience to gradu-eight
When Dr Calum Laird crosses the Caird Hall stage to officially receive his PhD, it will mark an incredible eighth qualification for his family from the University of Dundee and its predecessors.
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Comics explore links between drug use and oral health
Artists, dentists, public health experts and addiction workers have collaborated with people with lived experience of drugs to create a series of comics that examine the impact of substance use on oral health.
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University colleagues to unveil tribute to Dundee historian
The life of one of the University of Dundee’s most beloved staff members will be celebrated by colleagues tomorrow.
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Check this out: graduate’s Tartan tale is a bestseller
A part-time job working in a city kilt hire shop has helped a University of Dundee graduate spin a bestselling yarn of her own.
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English
School of Humanities
University of Dundee
Nethergate
Dundee DD1 4HN
Scotland, UK