Drama and English, BA (Hons)

94% of our English Language and Literature research was assessed as world-leading or internationally excellent (REF 2021). We rank in the top 100 globally (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023).The Drama and English BA enables you to explore theatre, performance, and literature through a blend of practice and theory, building skills in performance-making and analysis. Our forward-thinking curriculum spans a thousand years of literature innovatively, incorporating unique archives like Virginia Woolf’s and Doris Lessing’s private letters, field trips to Woolf’s house and the Globe Theatre, and experimental writing. Experts with creative industry ties and links to events such as the Placeholder poetry series and The Coast is Queer festival support you in examining cultural forces shaping literature and performance, fostering your critical and creative responses to contemporary issues. Sussex’s stimulating courses, research, and campus—on a green site edging the South Downs National Park, near Brighton & Hove, Gatwick, and London—drive innovation and global impact.