Teaching

The Centre supports and develops postgraduate teaching in many aspects of visual culture at MA, MPhil and DPhil levels. Colleagues have expertise in aesthetics and visual theory, the built environment, material culture, moving images studies, photography history and theory, and digital media theory.

The following MA programmes have explicit links with the Centre and offer courses that explore historically and theoretically diverse visual spheres.

MA Critical Theory

The programme offers two options in the autumn and two in the spring term and includes the following with visual emphases: Critical Issues in Queer Theory; Texts and Theories; Fragments: Theory, History, Visual Culture; Freud; The Photograph in Modernism; Post-structuralism; Psychoanalysis, Literature and the Cinema, Part 1 and Part 2; Sexuality, Fiction and Subculture; Sexuality/Sexual Difference; Space and Representation; and Text-Music-Drama.

MA Literature and Culture 1700-1900

The programme offers two options in the autumn and two in the spring term, including the following with visual emphases: Image and Text; Romantic and 19th-Century Sexualities; The Fin de Siècle; The History of Domesticity; and The Visual Culture of Romanticism.

MA Literature, Film and Visual Culture

This programme invites students to think about various media in both their specificity and their interrelatedness. Students choose two options in the autumn and two in the spring from among the following: Style: The Necessary Failure; Image and Text; Photography and Fiction; Psychoanalysis and the Image; and The Visual Culture of Romanticism. Students may also take a variety of other options offered on other MA programmes. Students’ dissertations typically will address a topic with an interdisciplinary focus.

MA Literature and Philosophy

This MA provides an advanced programme of study for those interested in questions that arise at the intersection of the two disciplines. The core course addresses explicitly the question of the relation between philosophy and literature in contemporary thought. Three further courses are chosen from options among those dealing with aspects of visual culture.

DPhil programmes