Creative and Critical Writing | University of Sussex

Course summary

94% of our research overall in English Language and Literature was assessed to be world leading or internationally excellent (REF 2021)

We welcome a wide range of PhD applications that creatively engage literary criticism, theory and creative writing. As a doctoral researcher, you’ll be supervised by academics who lead in their fields of study.

Past projects have dealt with:

psychoanalysis
soundscapes
deconstruction
queer Marxist poetics
procedural poetics
animal studies and more.

They have used creative and critical literary methods including poetry, fiction, screenplays and scripts, and memoir.

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