Course Overview
The inter-relationship between theory, scholarship and the creative process is key to the Goldsmiths MPhil/PhD in Creative Writing. Before applying, you will find it helpful to discuss your research/writing plan with an appropriate member of staff in the Department: please contact the Postgraduate Secretary, Maria Macdonald (as below) and see staff research interests. Students for the programme are expected to combine their own creative writing with research into the genre or area of literature in which they are working, to gain insight into its history, development and contemporary practices. This might be genre in the more traditional sense, for example satire, fictional autobiography, verse drama, or particular traditions to which they feel their work relates, for example projective verse; postmodernist fiction; Caribbean poetics. They are also expected to engage with relevant contemporary debates about theory and practice.