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A workshop course in writing poetry which also involves wide reading in the genre.

A workshop course in writing short fiction which also involves wide reading in the genre. Entry to this course is by selection.

A workshop course in writing creative nonfiction (e.g. memoirs, travel writing) which also involves representative reading in the genre.

A topic in creative writing. Course materials will be an additional cost.

A topic in creative writing. Course materials will be an additional cost.

This creative writing workshop is a practical paper for students who wish to produce fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry or scriptwriting which is informed by Māori or Pasifika perspectives, cultures and origins, the process of colonisation, or que...

'Wild Civility' introduces some of the great English texts from the medieval to the Romantic period (1380-1830). It explores literature from the bawdy tales of Chaucer, to the drama and poetry of the age of Shakespeare, to the verse of the Romantic p...

How does fiction work? What happens when we approach the reading of fiction as an experience? What does it mean to respond to a voice crafted in prose? This course will provide students with essential tools for the study of narrative. You will read o...

A survey of British, Irish and American literature from 1899 to the Second World War. This course studies many of the major writers of the Modernist period and includes poetry, short stories, novels, plays, film and the visual arts. Particular attent...

How do literary texts represent and respond to the climate crisis? How can literature develop our imaginative, affective, and interpersonal capacities for inhabiting the present and future of the planet? In this course, you'll explore these questions...

This course traces the gothic from Romanticism up until the the present. Particular attention will be paid to how representations of monstrosity, haunting and sexual transgression have changed from the nineteenth century female gothic through fin-de-...

Pō evokes multiple translations–darkness perpetual, the unknown, the night, realm of death. It is a pivotal epistemology in Māori literary studies and throughout the Pacific region. You will explore a bespoke selection of creative works in English by...

This course will explore literature written in the Romantic period (1789-1832) and its afterlives. We will study the major canonical British writers of the period as well as Black and Indigenous writers who engaged with Romanticism and its legacies. ...

This course will explore the literary and cultural landscape of the Victorian period (1837-1901) through extended engagement with one major novel. Reading together in community, we’ll explore how seriality (publishing in monthly parts) allowed the no...

This course will be concerned with studying the developments in American Literature, in prose and poetry, from the turn of the 20th century to the present. The course considers the impact of major literary movements of the 20th century, including Mod...

A study of the innovative forms that contemporary writers are developing to extend the possibilities of life writing beyond the conventional autobiography. There is an option to work on your own experiment in life writing, or to focus entirely on cr...

This course explores the ubiquitous mode of complaint in early modern English literature, including Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece and Hero and Leander , and the poetry of women writers. Focused on the woeful expression of amorous, political, reli...

This course explores the work of Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, including Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. These writers will be situated within both their Victorian contexts and more recent feminist critic...

In this course you will pursue an independent research project under supervision. You will develop specialised knowledge of your topic as well as a critical awareness of its importance within the discipline. There are different options for the parame...

MA thesis in English.

PhD course.

Great Ideas is a course reflecting on some of the most exciting, important and revolutionary ideas that have shaped society and culture as it is today. It also considers how those ideas have an ongoing influence. It’s an interdisciplinary course look...

Even in a modern world dominated by visual and digital media, written communication remains the most essential and powerful tool not only in the university but in all social and professional contexts. This course draws on traditions of literary and c...

The course teaches skills in both critical and creative reading and writing, through engagement with a wide range of poetry. You will explore the effects of concision, ornament, sentence structure, repetition, metre and form.

This course explores the relationship between English literature and journalism from the 18th to the 21st century. It considers questions of fact and fiction, objectivity, and style, across a range of genres. Students have the opportunity to produce ...

The proliferation of digital media is pushing the boundaries of literary and creative communication in Oceania. This course is grounded in the digital and environmental humanities as it asks students to navigate Indigenous transformations of writing ...

In this course we will explore the dynamic relationship between contemporary creative nonfiction, storytelling, and shifting ecological imaginings. You will encounter a diverse range of engagements with homes and hauntings, ecosystems and environment...

Tangata whenua writers, artists, and scholars have engaged with and in English for over two centuries. This course examines the interweaving of Māori concepts from early textual practices and visual literacies, to Indigenous ecocriticism and theories...