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409 Master's degrees in Literature in Europe

Creative Writing
This Creative Writing programme from University of Hull Online will transform your passion for reading into the ability to produce prose worthy of public recognition.
Literature - Culture - Media, Russian Literature
The aim of the Literature - Culture - Media, Russian Literature programme from Lund University is to strengthen students’ historical knowledge and theoretical understanding of relations between literature, culture and modern media.
English Literature and Culture
The one-year English Literature and Culture MA programme at Leiden University focuses on the interaction between literature and key political and social issues such as identity, migration, memory and the metropolis, but also between literature and the literary tradition, and literature and film.
English Literature and Culture (Literary Studies)
In the one-year English Literature and Culture (Literary Studies) programme of the University of Amsterdam, you explore the history and theory of literature in English, and study its relationship with other media, while engaging key issues of intellectual concern in society, politics and culture.

Portuguese
Pursue research you are passionate about. This Portuguese course from Newcastle University combines taught and research elements, allowing you to explore in depth a specific area of Portuguese studies such as linguistics, Latin American culture and politics, the Spanish novel, or Latin American film.

Contemporary Literature and Culture - Pre-Master's Programme
This one-year Contemporary Literature and Culture - Pre-Master's Programme from OnCampus Loughborough offers successful students guaranteed progression to Loughborough University.
Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
The master’s programme in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at University of Vienna prepares students for independent research in the area of anglophone literatures and cultures.
Literary Studies
The Literary Studies MA degree from Aberystwyth University offers you a stimulating engagement with English literature in all its depth and diversity, with the opportunity to develop particular expertise in one of a number of specialist areas.

Victorian Gothic - History, Literature and Culture (Distance Learning)
Victorian Gothic - History, Literature and Culture (Distance Learning) from University of Portsmouth explores not just 19th-century Gothic cultures but, more generally, the fears, wonders, and dark imagination of the Victorian era.

English Language and Literature
The MA English Language and Literature degree offered at the University of Westminster will provide you with a thorough understanding of the linguistic features of English from a wide range of perspectives (theoretical and applied, synchronic and diachronic). The University of Westminster and its courses are located in London.
Religion and Literature
This Religion and Literature programme from The University of Edinburgh draws on the strengths of one of the most distinguished centres of religious and theological studies in the country. It offers deep and broad study of the relationship between all genres of literature and religious traditions, history, thought and practice.
Education (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)
This Education (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature) course from the University of Cambridge thematic route concentrates on a wide range of fiction for children, including the "classics", texts for very young readers, international literature and novels for young adults.
Comparative Literature and Culture with Spanish and Latin American Studies
Study literature from across the world and explore cultures and societies in and beyond the English-speaking world. Gain a global outlook while learning from experts in languages, literatures and cultures.
Anglophone Modernities in Literature and Culture
This Anglophone Modernities in Literature and Culture MA course at the University of Potsdam offers insights into Anglophone literatures and cultures worldwide. Apart from providing European and American perspectives, the program also includes an analysis of African, Asian, and Australian phenomena of literary and cultural modernity.

European Languages and Cultures
The European Languages and Cultures master's programme at the University of Tartu trains students to be cultural mediators (translators, administrators, editors, etc.) by providing knowledge and skills in a modern or classical language and culture. You can specialise in either English, French, German, Scandinavian or Spanish language and literature or Russian and Slavic philology.

English Literature
On the English Literature course from Bangor University you will study both canonical and less well-known texts from over a thousand years of English literary history, within a close-knit community of like-minded students from across the world.

English Literature - Science Fiction Studies
The English Literature - Science Fiction Studies programme from University of Liverpool provides you with a range of options in the academic study of science fiction, as genre and cultural mode.
Secondary Education - Language and Luxembourgish Literature
This Secondary Education - Language and Luxembourgish Literature from University of Luxembourg has been designed for students holding a Bachelor degree in philology or cultural studies and wish to qualify as secondary school teachers.

Children's Literature, Media and Cultural Entrepreneurship (Multiple degree)
Tilburg University's Children's Literature, Media and Cultural Entrepreneurship (Multiple degree) is a two-year Erasmus Mundus International Master’s program initiated and taught by a consortium of five universities. With this program you deepen your knowledge of children’s literature, media and culture from an international perspective and a multidisciplinary approach.
Songwriting
The Master of Arts in Songwriting at Berklee College of Music will instill in you a deeper knowledge of lyrical and musical techniques, song forms, and ideas on arranging and production that past and current innovators in songwriting have used with great success.