MSt (Res), a research-based Masters degree. The MSt (Res) is a one-year research degree in which you are expected to complete a thesis of no more than 30,000 words. It is an excellent opportunity to spend a shorter time in a research environment either for a standalone degree or as preparation for a PhD.The Modern and Contemporary research group focuses on literature and culture from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st. The group's wide-ranging expertise runs from the fin de siècle to contemporary poetry, with particular strengths in the areas of Modernism, including T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf; women’s writing and gender studies; crime fiction; contemporary critical theory; modern and contemporary poetry; British and American theatre; Scottish literature; science fiction and fantasy; war writing; literature of the 1940s; British cinema and music.