MA/PgDip/PgCert Literature, Culture and Modernity

Teaching for most modules takes place in weekly, two-hour seminars. Personal supervision is provided throughout the course and in support of the writing of the dissertation.  The module ‘Literature in the Cultural and Academic World’ is taught in three longer block sessions, with additional one-to-one supervisory sessions with a member of staff.

Assessment

You will be assessed through:

• Written and oral assignments (66%)
• Written dissertation(34%)
• Continuous assessment by your tutors

Staff Profile

Professor Peter Buse

Course leader: MA/PgDip Literature, Culture and Modernity

I have been at Salford since 1996, when I was hired to teach modern British drama and literary theory.  My first books were on these subjects, but I have subsequently moved into teaching film studies and researching on the history of photography.  I have recently finished a book on the cultural history of Polaroid photography, the culmination of many years of research.

I have a longstanding interest in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis and their relation to cultural criticism, and I am also very interested in early twentieth-century periodicals culture. I am reviews editor of the journal new formations, and I am a member of the steering group for the European Society of Periodical Research (ESPRit), as well as heading up the Salford Periodicals Research Cluster, which hosted the inaugural conference of ESPRit in December 2011.

Teaching MA students is one of the real pleasures of the job. The enthusiasm and commitment of students on the course has an energising effect, and we have been delighted to follow a number of our MA students into PhD study. The more intimate teaching context of the MA really helps to foster a secure and stimulating environment for critical debate.