Junior Sophister Modules 2026-27

• Junior Sophister Module Table

**Sophister modules which are 10 ECTS are scheduled for two contact hours per week, in either one, two-hour slot or two, one-hour slots, and 5 ECTS modules are scheduled for one hour per week. Only students requiring 30 or 50 ECTS in English should choose 5 ECTS modules.

Wednesdays 2-4 p.m.

Michaelmas Semester

• Genders and Sexualities in Children's Literature - ENU33051
• Literature and Writing Technologies - ENU33065
• The Victorian Gothic - ENU33026
• Yeats and Modern Irish Theatre - ENU34094

Hilary Semester

• Literature of Critque, Critique of Literature: The Uses of Satire - ENU33083
• The Postcolonial Zombie: Reclaiming a Monster - ENU33089
• The Seven Basic Plots - ENU33034

Mondays 12-1 p.m. and Thursdays 1-2 p.m.

Michaelmas Semester

• A Faithful Anatomy of Her Times: Shirley Jackson and Post-War America- ENU33086
• Censorship and Irish Writing - ENU33072 
• Ulysses - ENU33028

Hilary Semester

• Amiable Hustlers: How to Sell a Children's Book - ENU33068
• Marriage, Sex, and Genre in Eighteenth-Century Ireland - ENU33057
• Medieval Manuscripts - ENU34097

Wednesdays 11 a.m.-12 p.m. and Fridays 12-1 p.m.

Michaelmas Semester

• Humans, other Animals, and Literary Genres - ENU34091
• Surviving Trauma in the Middle Ages- ENU33031
• "The Pain of Unbelonging": Writing from Canada, South America and Australasia - ENU33032

Hilary Semester

• Nineteenth-Century Detective Fiction: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes - ENU33025
• Reading the Bible as Literature - ENU33082
• The Ghost Story - ENU33067
• The Literature of Eating - ENU33039

Thursdays 9-11 a.m.

Michaelmas Semester

• Early American Writing: Exploration, Settlement, Encounter - ENU33079
• Modernist Essayisms - ENU33058
• Past and Present: Irish Theatre since 1964 - ENU33060

Hilary Semester

• Meaning in the Machine: An Accessible Introduction to Computational Literary Studies - ENU33088
• Poetry in Practice: Form, Voice, Image - ENU33054 
  *Places are restricted. Students must apply for this module in advance of online module enrolment opening.
• Reading at the Margins: Dissent, Desire, and (Dis)enfranchisement in Eighteenth-Century Literature - ENU33075
• The "Other" in Early Modern English Drama - ENU33069 

Fridays 4-5 p.m. (1 hour only) - 5 ECTS

Michaelmas Semester

• Beckett's Three Novels Plus Minus - ENU33045
• Blow-Ins: Contemporary Women Writers and Artists on Rural Ireland - ENU33074 - 2025-26
• Contemporary Irish Women Writers UM JS 2025-26 5 ECTS - ENU33077 - 2025-26
• Reading Don DeLillo: Underworld - ENU33006
• Reading Nature Writing JC JS MT 2025-26 5 ECTS - ENU33073 - 2025-26

Hilary Semester

• A Tour of the American Short Story - ENU33062
• Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism: American Prose... KP JS HT 2025-26 5 ECTS - ENU33015 - 2025-26
• Sherlock in the Strand: Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - ENU33087
• The Final Frontier?: Decolonising Speculative Fiction - ENU33090
• Writing Short Prose Forms UM JS HT 2025-26 5 ECTS - ENU33078 - 2025-26

Fridays 12-2 p.m.

Michaelmas Semester

• Reading Ireland A - ENU44055 - TBC

Hilary Semester

• Reading Ireland B - ENU44056