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It’s the perfect setting for a challenging and rewarding university experience that creates incredible memories and helps you achieve your ambitions. With a focus on practice-based learning, supported by outstanding teaching, laboratory and simulation facilities in every faculty, Surrey is ranked first in the UK for work placements and graduate employability.
English Literature with Creative Writing at the University of Surrey
If you’re an aspiring writer and a literature enthusiast, the English Literature, or English Literature with Creative Writing (BA Hons) at the University of Surrey might be the degree for you. Conducting engaging and intellectually challenging teaching in literature and creative writing, all of Surrey's academics are acclaimed writers and scholars as well as enthusiastic and experienced teachers who convey ideas and explain techniques and methodologies enthusiastically and accessibly.
The University of Surrey is ranked 7th in the UK for English by the Complete University Guide 2023, and 9th in the UK by the Guardian University Guide 2023. On the English Literature or English Literature with Creative Writing course, you’ll study vital and influential works of literature, reading and discussing contemporary works as well as classics in a wide range of genres. You’ll also develop a wide range of creative writing skills and knowledge, looking at forms such as novels, short stories, poetry, plays, screenplays, gaming and graphic novels.
Alongside classic works like those of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and George Eliot, you’ll study contemporary works by writers including Kazuo Ishiguro and Jhumpa Lahiri amidst genres like travel writing, nineteenth-century theatre and Beat writing. The creative writing modules will develop your understanding of the techniques used and challenges faced by the writers you study on your English literature modules. They will also help you find inspiration and root your own creative work in the authors and literary traditions you’ll be studying.
Dr Amy Louise Morgan
Dr Amy Louise Morgan began working as a Lecturer in Medieval Literature at the University of Surrey in October 2017, after completing her PhD at the University of Surrey earlier that year. Amy's doctoral studentship, awarded by the University of Surrey, supported her research on queer time and space in medieval romance and the lays. In this study she analysed Bisclavret, Lanval, Sir Orfeo, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. Amy specialises in medieval literature, queer theory, and gender theory with a particular focus on queer time, space, and identity. Her publications include an article on queerness in Sir Orfeo; an article on Marie de France, alienation and Lanval; and a book chapter on orchards as queer loci in Lanval and Sir Orfeo. She is currently writing a monograph on queer time and space in medieval romance. In addition, Amy is working on two new projects. The first examines female space as queer space in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur. The second focuses on gender, time, and space in Disney's medievalism.
