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School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Welcome to our School.
In our corridors you'll bump into world-class writers about literature and into the people who are writing literature today: prose, poetry, plays. It's that thrilling meeting of criticism and creativity – reading and writing, thinking and doing – that makes our School such a special place.
This is why we say that UEA is the place where literature lives.
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2025/26 - September - 2025 entry
BA (Hons) Literature and History
Study the intertwined disciplines of English literature and history under the guidance of our leading historians, literary critics, and creative writers at UEA. You’ll discover the benefits of working from a truly interdisciplinary perspective, as you delve into the diverse histories of different regions and cultures, and explore a wealth of literature from a variety of genres, traditions, and time periods. Based in Norwich – a city with a rich historic past and a vibrant cultural present – you’ll develop a unique set of skills by working across two subjects, ready to take what you’ve learnt forward into an exciting range of careers.
2025/26 - September - 2025 entry
BA (Hons) Drama
Hone your craft as a performer and maker on our BA Drama degree, drawing on a wealth of performance styles and traditions from across time periods and from all around the world. You’ll develop your own practical performance skills alongside studying great plays and works of theatre, mastering everything from acting and directing to theory and stagecraft.
2025/26 - September - 2025 entry
BA (Hons) English Literature with Creative Writing
On our renowned undergraduate course which brings together English Literature and creative writing, your creativity and your literary training will invigorate each other. Based in Norwich, England's first UNESCO City of Literature, you’ll hone your craft as a writer across a variety of literary forms and genres (including prose, poetry, and script) on bespoke creative writing modules, while developing a nuanced understanding of literature – its forms, its methods, its history, and its politics – in an exciting array of literary-critical modules.
2025/26 - September - 2025 entry
BA (Hons) Creative Writing and English Literature
Step into the writer’s world and hone your craft in this lively creative writing degree. Through a mixture of seminars, workshops, and real-world writing opportunities, you’ll develop your writing ability and share your work in a constructive collaborative environment, as you test your skills writing across an array of literary, visual and digital media. You’ll also explore literature from a wide range of genres, countries and time periods, studying styles, traditions and approaches, and supporting your own creative practice.
2025/26 - September - 2025 entry
BA (Hons) English Literature and Drama
Immerse yourself in the exhilarating practices of reading, writing and performance on this interdisciplinary English Literature and Drama degree. You’ll gain a thorough academic grounding in prose, poetry, and drama, and delve deep into the world of dramatic production, acting, and contemporary theatre. Your dramatic training and developing knowledge of stagecraft will be complemented by your study of literature from across centuries, genres, and cultures, from established classics to new works being written and published today.
2025/26 - September - 2025 entry
BA (Hons) Drama and Creative Writing
Unite creative writing and performance in this exhilarating and immersive course at UEA. You’ll hone your writing craft across different forms and genres, including prose, poetry, and writing for stage and screen. You’ll also explore acting, directing and all other aspects of stagecraft, equipping you with all you need for a successful career as a writer with a firm grasp of, and impressive flair for, theatre and the performing arts.
2025/26 - September - 2025 entry
BA (Hons) English Literature
UEA is the place where literature lives – from ancient epic storytelling to contemporary bestsellers, and from different countries and traditions around the globe. Whether you love twenty-first century crime fiction or Shakespeare and his contemporaries, our flexible English Literature degree allows you to explore a wealth of exciting texts, reading in new and inventive ways as you develop a confident critical voice. You’ll benefit from studying in the historic and creative city of Norwich – England’s first UNESCO City of Literature – and graduate as a passionate and skillful reader and thinker, with everything you’ve learnt preparing you for a host of fulfilling careers.
2025/26 - September - 2025 entry
MA Creative Writing Poetry
Immerse yourself in the craft and study of poetry, discovering more about the variety and nuances of the artform, and about yourself as a poet. Learning from practising and highly-regarded poets, you’ll have scope to investigate new aspects of poetry and experiment with your poetic style. Your writing practice will be aided by academic study, introducing unfamiliar contexts and movements, and pushing your own poetic expression.
2025/26 - September - 2025 entry
MA Creative Writing Scriptwriting
Develop your writing craft, industry knowledge, and dramaturgical understanding as you learn with renowned writers for theatre, screen, and radio along with visiting specialists on this world-leading MA in Scriptwriting. You’ll gain a deep knowledge of the repertoire and dramaturgy, as you discover your writing voice in a supportive and stimulating group of writers. Your work will come to fruition in a full-length drama in your chosen medium.
Research
School of Literature Drama and Creative Writing
Dr Adesola Adeyemi
- Associate Professor in Drama, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Dr Nathan Ashman
- Lecturer in Crime Writing, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Creative Writing Research Group
- Member, Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group
Professor Tiffany Atkinson
- Professor in Creative Writing (Poetry), School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Creative Writing Research Group
Trezza Azzopardi
- Lecturer, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Creative Writing Research Group
Thomas Benn
- Associate Professor in Crime Writing, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Creative Writing Research Group
Dr Stephen Benson
- Associate Professor, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group
Mr Michael Bernardin
- Associate Professor in Drama, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Professor Stephanie Bishop
- Professor in Creative Writing (Prose), School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Dr Thomas Boll
- Associate Professor in Literary Translation, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, British Centre for Literary Translation Research Group
Dr Birgit Breidenbach
- Lecturer in Literature and Philosophy, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group
Dr Sophie Butler
- Lecturer in Early Modern Literature, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Medieval and Early Modern Research Group
Mr Robert Carson
- Steering Committee Member, CreativeUEA
- Associate Professor, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Creative Writing Research Group
Dr Clare Connors
- Associate Professor, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group
Dr Holly Corfield Carr
- Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry), School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Ms Christabelle Dilks
- Associate Tutor, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
- School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Lecturer in Media Production, School of Media, Language and Communication Studies
Dr Emily Dolmans
- Lecturer in Medieval Literature, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Heritage and History
- Member, Medieval and Early Modern Research Group
Ms Sian Evans
- Lecturer, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Creative Writing Research Group
Professor Giles Foden
- Professor of Creative Writing, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Creative Writing Research Group
Mr Paul Garrett
- BCLT Translator in Residence, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Professor Richard Hand
- Member, Film, Television and Media
- Professor in Media Practice in English, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Comics Studies Research Group
Ms Andrea Holland
- Associate Tutor, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
- Associate Professor, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Creative Writing Research Group
Dr Katherine Hunt
- Lecturer in 16th & 17th Century Literature, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Dr Jacob Huntley
- Lecturer, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Creative Writing Research Group
Dr Claire Hynes
- Associate Professor in Creative Writing, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Creative Writing Research Group
- Member, Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group
Professor Claire Jowitt
- Member, Area Studies
- Professor in English and History, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Medieval and Early Modern Research Group
- Member, Medieval History
Dr Thomas Karshan
- Associate Professor in Literature, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group
- Member, East Centre: UEA Centre for the Study of East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Space
Dr Philip Langeskov
- Associate Professor in Creative Writing, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Creative Writing Research Group
Professor Duncan Large
- Professor of European Literature and Translation, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Research Group
- Member, British Centre for Literary Translation Research Group
- Member, East Centre: UEA Centre for the Study of East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Space
Professor Tom Licence
- Professor of Medieval History and Consumer Culture, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Medieval History
Mr James McDermott
- Lecturer in Screenwriting/Scriptwriting, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Professor Jean McNeil
- Steering Committee Member, CreativeUEA
- Professor of Creative Writing, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Creative Writing Research Group
- Steering Committee Member, ClimateUEA
- Member, Developing Resilience through Climate Narratives
Professor Tessa McWatt
- Professor of Creative Writing, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Creative Writing Research Group
Professor Anshuman Mondal
- Professor of Modern Literature, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group
Mr Benjamin Musgrave
- Lecturer in Scriptwriting, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Creative Writing Research Group
Dr Jeremy Tod
- Associate Professor, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group
Professor David Nowell-Smith
- Professor, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Legible / Visible
- Member, Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group
Dr Hannah Osborne
- Member, Area Studies
- Lecturer in Japanese Literature, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Centre for Japanese Studies
- Member, British Centre for Literary Translation Research Group
Dr Julianne Pachico
- Lecturer in Creative Writing (Prose), School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Dr John Philo
- UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Honorary Research Fellow, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Medieval and Early Modern Research Group
Dr Rebecca Pinner
- Associate Professor, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Heritage and History
- Member, Medieval and Early Modern Research Group
Dr Joanna Poppleton
- Associate Professor in Literature, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Research Group
Professor Rachel Potter
- Professor of Modern Literature, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group
Professor Catherine Richardson
- Pro-Vice-Chancellor Arts & Humanities, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Dr Iain Robinson
- Lecturer, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Creative Writing Research Group
Dr Thomas Roebuck
- Associate Professor, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Heritage and History
- Member, Medieval and Early Modern Research Group
Dr Cecilia Rossi
- Professor in Literature and Translation, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, British Centre for Literary Translation Research Group
Dr William Rossiter
- Professor, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Medieval and Early Modern Research Group
Miss Anne Rutherford
- BCLT Translator in Residence, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Dr Karen Schaller
- Lecturer in Literature, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group
Dr Catherine Sharrock
- Associate Professor in Literature, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Research Group
Dr Jos Smith
- Associate Professor in Contemporary Literature, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group
- Member, ClimateUEA
- Member, Developing Resilience through Climate Narratives
Professor Henry Sutton
- Professor of Creative Writing and Crime Fiction, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Creative Writing Research Group
Dr Ioana-Stefania Szeman-Ureche
- Associate Professor in Drama, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Dr Bharat Tandon
- Lecturer, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Research Group
Professor Matthew Taunton
- Professor of Modern Literature, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group
- Member, East Centre: UEA Centre for the Study of East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Space
Mr Ian Thomson
- Associate Professor in Creative Non-Fiction, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Creative Writing Research Group
- Member, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Research Group
Professor Steven Waters
- Steering Committee Member, CreativeUEA
- Professor of Scriptwriting, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Creative Writing Research Group
- Member, ClimateUEA
- Member, Developing Resilience through Climate Narratives
Dr James Wood
- Associate Professor Eighteenth Century English Lit, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Research Group
Dr Naomi Wood
- Associate Professor in Creative Writing, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
- Member, Creative Writing Research Group
Climate change researcher Prof Philip Jones among members of UEA community recognised in New Year’s Honours list
Thursday 2 January 2025, 11:56am
Gloucester Shipwreck project gains recognition at national award ceremony
Friday 29 November 2024, 10:35am
University of East Anglia to deliver a new Creative Writing MA course for the new creative economy
Friday 25 October 2024, 4:41pm
Innovation and Impact Awards now open for entries and nominations
Monday 7 October 2024, 4:55pm
Setting the stage for future success: UEA renews partnership with Norwich Theatre
Friday 20 September 2024, 10:52am
Mushens Entertainment Award announced for UEA’s Creative Writing MA in Crime Fiction
Wednesday 22 May 2024, 1:23pm
UEA academics receive Freedom of the City of London for impactful work
Thursday 25 April 2024, 2:35pm
Dr Naomi Wood wins the BBC National Short Story Awards
Thursday 28 September 2023, 2:31pm
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