This course is for you if you love literature and aspire to pursue doctoral studies, on the way to becoming a professional researcher, academic or teacher and the MRes English Literature at Northumbria offers a first class opportunity to realise those ambitions. Internationally recognised scholars in English Literature teach this intensive research-focused Masters degree. You will work with cutting-edge research-active staff to push forward the latest developments in literary criticism. The English division in the Department of Humanities has a number of exciting and interdisciplinary research groups, with particular strengths in the Early Modern period, the Long Eighteenth Century, Modernism, Gender, and Popular Culture. Whether taken for the love of literature, or for personal or professional development, the MRes will enhance skills such as communication, self-management and project planning. The MRes is perfect for people wishing go on to study a PhD, while ensuring that those students who move on to work as researchers outside the university system will have the skills necessary to meet the needs of the public services, the professions, and of employers generally.