The MA in Literature & Culture is UCD's flagship MA programme in English-language literature and culture. Students work with leading international scholars and world-class teachers, who have expertise in a wide range of areas, from the literature of the Middle Ages to the modern and contemporary. The programme provides an intensive combination of taught courses and supervised research, designed to develop students’ skills and confidence as scholars and critics of literature and its contexts. Current courses include seminars in Medieval and Renaissance LIterature, 18th and 19th-Century literature and culture, Contemporary American Poetics, Modernism, World Literature, Social Network Analysis, and Research Methods. 

The supervised dissertation gives students the unique opportunity to work closely on a topic of their choosing with published experts in their field of interest. All students take the core module Research Methods, and can choose other modules in a variety of areas, including British, American and World Literature. Recent courses have included: