MA in American Studies research degrees

at University of Hull

Our academic experts welcome applications for postgraduate research across a broad range of topics. 
 

Our principal areas of historical expertise include:

• Gang culture and the incarceral society
• History on film
• Mexican-American history
• African-American history
• The Civil Rights movement
• The Civil War
• War and 20th-century American society

In literary and cultural studies, our main areas of research activity include:

• Cinematic and televisual narratives
• American gothic and horror literature and culture
• Modern American poetry
• Modernist and Postmodernist aesthetics
• Race, gender and sexuality in contemporary American culture
• 20th-century visual art (painting, photography, sculpture and architecture)
• Radical culture

For entry onto one of our MA by Thesis programmes, you should normally have, or expect to obtain, at least a 2:1 Honours degree (or international equivalent) in American Studies or another subject with relevance (such as history, literature, politics, cultural studies, sociology or economics).

English language requirements 
 

This course requires academic IELTS 6.5 overall, with no less than 5.5 in each skill.

Tuition Fees

International Full time: £15,200 per year

It is now widely recognised by employers, professional bodies and research funding agencies that specialist expertise alone is not sufficient preparation either for research or a subsequent career.