What does it mean to be a man or a woman in medieval English literature? This course offers the opportunity to explore gendered identities in the Middle Ages.

This course will explore how Austen's acute social observations of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries live on into the twenty-first.

Power is a much misunderstood concept, variously invoked as constructive, liberating, coercive and conspiratorial. How can we best understand it?

This course explores how conjunctions of 'queer', 'gay', and 'lesbian' are explored in Gothic texts, and how they have the capacity for exploring difference in both problematic and liberating ways.

This course explores the magical world of pre-modern magic. From malevolent witches, to the cunning folk who sold magical cures, England was filled with people dabbling in the supernatural.

What if the story of early Christianity were told through the women who built it, preached it, and sometimes died for it? This course invites you on a journey through the dramatic, surprising, and deeply human stories of the women who helped shape the earliest centuries of the Christian world.

This course offers the opportunity to explore the proliferation of ‘mad, bad, and sad’ women in literature from the late nineteenth to the mid-20th century.

This course follows the chronological pattern of Woolf’s career as a novelist, exploring the ways that her writing experiments with narrative form and contributes to the development of the English novel.

The Belonging Network is a community organisation with a focus on supporting people from underrepresented backgrounds in the workplace, in Bath and North East Somerset.

Situated in an elegant Georgian town house in the centre of the City, the Jane Austen Centre houses a permanent exhibition which tells the story of Jane Austen’s brief but eventful stay in Bath.

Students can deepen their critical understanding of the intersections between feminist thought, gender studies and wider social and cultural debates.