English Literature (BA)

During Induction Week, make sure you follow your course induction schedule below. This must take priority over any other events. Most of these induction events will be on campus but there may be additional online events that you will need to attend or watch.

While most of these activities won’t change, there could be small changes to timings and locations, so make sure to check back here regularly for any updates.

Don’t forget to complete your online enrolment.

Induction schedule

If you are a student taking a joint honours degree you will need to also look at the induction schedule for your other subject. Joint honours students will need to attend the Welcome and Induction sessions and taster sessions for BOTH of their subjects.

Monday 16 September

Time	Event details	Location
On Demand	Read through the HSS Induction Google site For UG students only	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Induction Google site
1:00pm	Welcome and Induction	G536, Gibbs Building, Headington Campus

Wednesday 18 September

Time	Event details	Location
11:00am - 1:00pm	English Literature/English Literature and Creative Writing Taster session Literary walk	Meet in G536, Gibbs Building, Headington Campus
1:00pm - 4:00pm	Module Registration Helpdesk	G110, Gibbs Building, Headington Campus
2:00pm - 3:30pm	Welcome to the School of Education, Humanities and Languages	John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre, John Henry Brookes Building, Headington Campus

Time

Event details

Location

11:00am - 1:00pm

English Literature/English Literature and Creative Writing

Taster session
Literary walk

Meet in G536, Gibbs Building, Headington Campus

1:00pm - 4:00pm

Module Registration Helpdesk

G110, Gibbs Building, Headington Campus

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Welcome to the School of Education, Humanities and Languages

John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre, John Henry Brookes Building, Headington Campus

Thursday 19 September

Time	Event details	Location
10:00am - 4:00pm	Module Registration Helpdesk	G110, Gibbs Building, Headington Campus

Friday 20 September

Time	Event details	Location
On Demand	Sexual Consent Education View our consent induction webpage and complete the mandatory course on Moodle	View the Consent matters webpage Complete the Sexual consent education course
10:00am - 4:00pm	Module Registration Helpdesk	G110, Gibbs Building, Headington Campus
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Faculty Social	CLC G.02, Sir Kenneth Wheare Hall, Clerici Building, Headington Campus

Student Support Co-ordinators

Your Student Support Coordinator (SSC) is: Lucy Trousdell

How to contact us	Contact details	Availability
In person	G103, Gibbs Building, Headington Campus	Monday - Friday: 11:00am - 12:00pm; 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Email	ssc-hss@brookes.ac.uk
Phone	+44 (0) 1865 535250

Other key contacts

Job title	Name	Contact details
Subject Coordinator	Dr Niall Munro	niall.munro@brookes.ac.uk
Programme Lead	Dr Eleanor Lowe	eleanor.lowe@brookes.ac.uk
Academic Liaison Librarian	Joanne Cooksey	jcooksey@brookes.ac.uk
Programme Adminstrator	Debra Bates	dbates@brookes.ac.uk

Reading lists

This is an indicative reading list of the core books used for your course's compulsory modules. There is no expectation for you to purchase any of the books, they are all available in the university library.

Once you have chosen your optional modules, you will be able to contact the module leaders to request their reading lists.

For Joint Honours students, you will find your reading lists for your other subject on their new students web page.

English Literature Single Honours
Semester 1 Modules	Recommended Core Text
ENGL4001 Reading for Meaning	The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 6th revised edition, ed. by Margaret Ferguson, Tim Kendall, and Mary Jo Salter (New York: Norton, 2018). ISBN: 9780393679021 The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Eighth Edition, ed. by Richard Bausch and R.V. Cassill (New York: Norton, 2015). ISBN: 9780393937763
ENGL4003 Shakespeare Now	Measure for Measure, ed. A. R. Braunmuller and Robert N. Watson (London: Bloomsbury, 2020) Please note this is the revised Arden edition (3rd series)
ENGL4014 Reading Wonderland: The Literature of Oxford	Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited Publisher ‏: (Penguin Classics 2000) ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780141182483 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141182483
ENGL4015 Literature of Travel, Exploration and Exile	Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels. Any good edition of this text will be fine, but you might consider the Penguin Classics edition from 2003 (ISBN: 9780141439495), or the Wordsworth Classics edition from 1992 (ISBN: 9781853260278).
Semester 2 Modules	Recommended Core Text
ENGL4006 Theory, Writing and Power	Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory, 6th edn (London: Routledge, 2023), ISBN: 9781032158846.
ENGL4014 Diverse Americas	Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Penguin, 2015). ISBN: 9780141981772

English Literature Joint Honours
Semester 1 Modules	Recommended Core Text
ENGL4001 Reading for Meaning	The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 6th revised edition, ed. by Margaret Ferguson, Tim Kendall, and Mary Jo Salter (New York: Norton, 2018). ISBN: 9780393679021 The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Eighth Edition, ed. by Richard Bausch and R.V. Cassill (New York: Norton, 2015). ISBN: 9780393937763
ENGL4014 Reading Wonderland: The Literature of Oxford	Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited Publisher ‏: (Penguin Classics 2000) ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780141182483 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141182483
Semester 2 Modules	Recommended Core Text
ENGL4006 Theory, Writing and Power	Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory, 6th edn (London: Routledge, 2023), ISBN: 9781032158846.

Additional information

More information about your induction programme can be found on the Faculty Induction Google Site.

Joint Honours Students

If you are a student taking a joint honours degree you will need to also look at the induction schedule for your other subject.
Joint honours students will need to attend the Subject Welcome and taster sessions for BOTH of their courses. If your schedules show two different times for the School welcome session you need only attend one of these.