LGBTQ+

Along with core teaching on Queer Theory at Level One and a range of period-specific approaches to LGBTQIA+ literature at Level Two, we offer research-led modules on queer writing and cultural history. Level Three Advanced Option Modules may include Modernism’s Queer Spaces, which introduces students to drama, fiction, poetry, and life writing by LGBTQIA+ writers from the late-Victorian period to the mid-1950s. The module examines LGBTQIA+ texts in their cultural, political, and legal contexts, demonstrating an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to literary study.

“Thank you for creating a space that emphasised sensitivity and inclusion. I feel really good about myself as a student and queer individual.” – Modernism’s Queer Spaces student, 2019/20.

“Not only was this an excellent module from an academic standpoint, it was also incredibly liberating and re-affirming to study LGBTQ+ cultural history.” – Modernism’s Queer Spaces student, 2019/20.

We offer postgraduate students the opportunity to take a range of in-depth approaches to queer texts, contexts, and theories. Recent MA modules have included: 

• Out of Time: Sexuality, Textuality, and the Queer Temporal Turn
• Unspeakable Bodies: Theorising Queer and Abject Embodiment in Literature, Art, Medical History, and Culture, 1800-Present
• Bad Feelings: Negative Affect in Contemporary Literature
• Gothic Bodies 
• Sugar, Subjectivity, Sexuality & Style: The Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen

“Participating in weekly seminars of ‘Out of Time’ has let me really think about ‘what I think’. Exploring previous works, both academic and literary, whilst allowing for space to form personal thoughts/theories is an experience I’m going to cherish.” -- Ninutsa Nadirashvili, MA Out of Time: Sexuality, Textuality, and the Queer Temporal Turn, 2020/21.