English Language and Literature  Master Program (English)

About the program

The aim of this postgraduate program is to cultivate talents with a sense of innovation, international perspective, strong practical skills and independent research ability, who have a comprehensive understanding of western literary approaches, a solid theoretical foundation in literary criticism, a good grasp of relevant research methods and tools, and a rigorous attitude towards scientific studies.

Students can draw on the resources of the Institute of Corpus and Interdisciplinary Studies to acquire the main approaches to corpus-based literary research, which emphasizes the analysis of literary language and the laws of literary creation on the basis of observations and statistics on a large corpus of literature, the analysis of common features such as linguistic features and poetic traditions, as well as the study of individual features such as literary creativity and authorial style.

School of Foreign Languages has 12 professors and 33 associate professors. Among our faculty members, there are 35 Ph.D., and 35 Master Candidate Supervisors. In the past five years, nearly 500 academic papers have been published, a considerable number of which have been published in Applied Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Lingua, System, Language Sciences, Meta, Foreign Language Education & Research, Foreign Literature Review, Zhongguo Yuwen (Studies of the Chinese Language), Chinese Translators Journal, Foreign Literature Studies, Journal of Foreign Languages, Modern Foreign Languages, Contemporary Linguistics and other top academic journals at home and abroad. In the meanwhile, our research is enhanced by more than 100 research projects at various levels. In addition, more than 20 academic books (or translated books) have been published.

Main Courses

Methodology of English Literature Studies, Selected Readings of English Literature, The Approaches of Western Literary Criticism, Western Classical Literary Theory, Narration in English Novels, A Study of English Poetry, A Study of Renaissance Literature, Ethnic Literature, Research on Female Literature, A Study of British and American Drama, Literary Translation, and History of Western Thought.