CIRCL MA in Children’s Literature and PhD

The world-famous MA in Children’s and Young Adult Literature is the oldest in Britain based on literary and cultural studies approaches. The MA is taught by leading international experts in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and is run by the ‘Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media (CIRCL)’. It is formally a Master’s Research (MRes) because it provides excellent training for further research at PhD level, but it is a fully taught degree. This is an academically outstanding course on Children’s and Young Adult Literature and its history, critical approaches and theoretical issues. It also includes engagement with childhood studies and children’s media. It is notable that the kind of critical thinking and reading taught on this M(Res) cannot be done by Artificial Intelligence (AI)!

Watch Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein and one of the former M(Res) students now doing the Children’s Literature PhD talking about the course here.

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MA in Children’s Literature and PhD Students’ Application

Applications for the world-famous MA (formally M(Res)) in Children’s Literature and PhD are through the University of Reading’s online application system. The buttons on this page will take you to these links. If you have any questions about the M(Res) in Children’s Literature before you apply, please read about MA Information or if you have questions about the CIRCL PhD please read the PhD page. For more questions feel free to contact our staff.

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Latest News

• Graduation Dr Krissie Hunt
• Unveiling of Lecture Theatre sign in honour of Mr Tony Watkins, founder of the MA in Children’s Literature
  On 20th November 2024 at 1 pm we held an event to ‘unveil’ the sign naming Edith Morley Lecture Theatre G27 in honour of (the late) Mr Tony Watkins, who founded the MA in Children’s Literature here forty years ago (in 1984) as the first MA in the UK (and probably the world) to teach Children’s Literature from cultural and critical studies’ angles rather than from an educational or library studies perspective.
• Former MA student on CoP29
  Read about the experiences of our former MA student Gurpreet… Read more: Former MA student on CoP29