批判理论是一个令人兴奋和充满活力的领域，涵盖了文学，文化，社会和政治方面的多种智力方法。它需要反思不同学科中使用的前提，概念和类别。该计划提供了由专家指导的，范围广泛的理论方法，这些方法构成了人文科学领域的当代批判词汇。基于研讨会的教学使您可以批判性地参与各种理论方法，例如后结构主义，后殖民主义和法兰克福学派，以及海德格尔，德里达和德勒兹等思想家的工作。我们是世界上最古老的英语文学系，在上一次研究评估练习中，其研究评级被评为5A。我们拥有该地区最大的研究生课程之一，并且拥有涵盖英语文学各个方面的丰富研究文
Critical Theory is an exciting and dynamic field encompassing diverse intellectual approaches to literature, culture, society, and politics. It entails reflection on the premises, concepts and categories used in different disciplines. This programme provides expert-led teaching on the wide range of theoretical approaches that constitute the contemporary critical vocabulary within the humanities. Seminar-based teaching will allow you to critically engage with theoretical approaches as diverse as poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and the Frankfurt School, and with the work of thinkers such as Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze. We are the oldest department of English Literature in the world, and at the last Research Assessment Exercise were awarded the highest research rating possible, of 5A. We have one of the largest graduate programmes in this area in the country and a rich research culture covering all aspects of literatures in English. We offer supervision in all areas of English literature, historical and/or theoretical. The research of staff has made valuable contributions to the areas of literature and philosophy, modernism/postmodernism, medieval and early modern literature, history of the book, romanticism, transatlantic studies and performance studies. English Literature houses the Centre for the History of the Book and is one of the UK's leading forces in this area. It works closely with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and with the National Library of Scotland. The latter's recently acquired Murray Archive is crucial for studies in Romanticism, Book History, Bibliography and Archive Studies.