English, BA (Hons)

Goldsmiths' BA English is a bold, flexible, and richly diverse programme that embarks students on a thrilling intellectual and imaginative journey. It poses big questions, challenging you to explore literature across cultural, artistic, and political contexts while debating what it means to be human through time. You'll traverse histories, cultures, and languages, delving into genres like epic, tragedy, and the novel; British literary history; theories such as feminism and postcolonialism; and topics including the Transatlantic slave trade, climate change, political activism, American literature, Black British writing, Caribbean literature, and indigenous voices.Our critical and creative approach draws on staff expertise in gender studies, environmental humanities, Caribbean literature, linguistics, Shakespeare, American studies, translation, contemporary writing, life writing, Decadence, trauma, critical theory, modernism, visual culture, Romantic and Victorian literature, and the novel. Home to the Goldsmiths Prize, Writers' Centre, Centre for Comparative Literature, Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies, and Decadence Research Centre, we deliver research-led teaching on canon formation, decolonisation, arts in cultural/political life, and archive politics. We foster success through draft feedback and one-to-one Effective Academic Writing sessions.