New postgraduate students

Welcome to English at Warwick! We have a thriving and lively intellectual community of postgraduates in the department, and we're very much looking forward to meeting you in the new term.

The department will be in touch with information about our Welcome events over the summer.

Welcome Week

Our Welcome Week is 29 September-5 October 2025.

Departmental Induction

Our main induction and welcome event will be on Tuesday 30th September 2025, from 12-3pm (including lunch). Lunch will be at 12pm in our Student Hub (5th floor, Faculty of Arts Building aka the FAB). At 1:00pm, we will move to FAB2.43 for the Postgraduate Induction (1:00–3:00pm). At 2:00pm, PGR students will break off for a separate induction session in FAB0.23, running from 2:00–3:00pm.

At the induction, you will learn about all the course procedures, events and activities, wellbeing, and social life. You will have a chance to meet staff and other current students over the lunch. Please let us know if you have any access requirements. Attendance at the induction is highly encouraged.

PG Induction SlidesLink opens in a new window

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ECLS International Student Induction** TBC**

*The Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies (ECLS) will also host an additional induction for international students in Week 2 on TBC from 5:30-7pm (Student Hub, 5th floor, Faculty of Arts Building).*

The Doctoral College Welcome Resources pageLink opens in a new window has tons of useful information for you about starting your PhD journey. Details of events during Welcome Week will be posted once available.

Research Development OnlineLink opens in a new window

10 things I wished I’d known at the start of my PhD- get some great tips and avoid their mistakes. Meet current and just qualified PhDs; meet current researchers and facilitators. Book on a session via SkillsForge

Details of these sessions will be posted once available.

PGR Welcome EventLink opens in a new window

Faculty of Arts PGR Induction, 21 October 2025
CADRE’s Arts Faculty PGR Welcome and Induction will take place on Tuesday, 21 October 2025, 10-2pm (Wolfson Research Exchange, The Library).

The Postgraduate Research New Starters Page page also has important and useful details.Link opens in a new window

If you're a PGT student registered on one of our MA courses, please address any queries to PGEnglish@warwick.ac.uk; if you're a PGR MPhil/PhD student, you should use PGREnglish@warwick.ac.uk.

You can also contact the Director of Graduate Studies Research, Nicholas Lawrence N.Lawrence@warwick.ac.uk; Director of Graduate studies Taught, Jonathan Skinner j.e.skinner@warwick.ac.uk or the Head of Department, Professor Paulo de Medeiros: p.de-medeiros@warwick.ac.uk 

MA modules 2025-2026

If you're studying on one of our MA courses - English Literature, World Literature, English and Drama, Critical and Cultural Theory, or Environmental Humanities - you will be able to choose a selection of modules.* The modules for 2025-2026 are shown in list below.

EN942 - Fundamentals of World Literature (Priority: MA World Literature)

EN9A7 - Drama and Performance Theory (Priority: MA English and Drama)

EN9C1 - Critical Theory Today (Priority: MA Critical and Cultural Theory)

EN9ZE - Critical Environments (Priority: MA Environmental Humanities)

EN926 - British Dramatist in Society

EN985 - Development of English Drama 1558-1642

EN9B5 - World Literature in the Anthropocene

EN913 - Feminist Literary Theory

EN9C2- Literature and LifecourseLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window

EN9B8- Queer Theory and PraxisLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window

EN9ZF- Shakespeare in HistoryLink opens in a new window