MA in Literature and Philosophy, University of Sussex

The MA in Literature and Philosophy builds on a strong tradition of
collaboration between the two disciplines at Sussex. It offers students
the opportunity to examine central questions that arise at the
intersection of philosophy and literature within a genuinely
interdisciplinary context. Research for the MA is supported by the
Centre for Literature and Philosophy and numerous research seminars run
by the participating departments.

Centre website: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clp/index.php
MA website: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clp/1-7.html

Areas in which research is supported and encouraged: style and
narrative, literary autonomy, truth and fiction, imagination and
emotion, ethics and literature, contexts and limits of interpretation,
approaches to reading including hermeneutics, deconstruction,
phenomenology, psychoanalysis.

In the core course, Explorations in Philosophy and Literature,
specialists in the field address explicitly the question of the
relation of the two disciplines through engagement with authors from
different literary and philosophical traditions. Authors discussed
include: Adorno, Benjamin, Cavell, Derrida, Freud, Heidegger, Lear,
Levinas, Murdoch, Nietzsche, Nussbaum, Rorty, Walton, Williams,
Wittgenstein.

For more information, please contact the convenor: Dr Katerina
Deligiorgi, K.Deligiorgi (at) sussex.ac.uk

MA in Philosophy and Literature, University of East Anglia, Norwich

MA in Philosophy and Literature
University of East Anglia, Norwich

The MA in Philosophy and Literature offers interdisciplinary study of the two subjects, and explores at many levels the deep links between them. The course is an ideal supplement to an undergraduate degree in either philosophy or literature, and an excellent preparation for advanced research work in either field. Students can choose from a wide range of modules in both subjects, while sharing a research workshop and core units jointly taught by philosophers and literary specialists. This makes the MA a genuinely joint degree, and not one where the two subjects are only taught in parallel.

UEA has a thriving community of 30-40 postgraduate students in Philosophy, and 80-90 in the Literature and Creative Writing. The atmosphere in both schools is friendly, rigorous and supportive, and the staff-student relationship is excellent. Several eminent specialists working in the area make Philosophy and Literature a major focus of research at UEA.

For further information contact Dr. Mark Rowe: mark.rowe (at) uea.ac.uk