Writing, Editing and Mediating

• Groningen is the only university in The Netherlands to offer an MA programme in Writing, Editing and Mediating.
• Our programme is tailored to your needs, with small classrooms that facilitate plenty of interaction with your lecturers and fellow classmates.
• With a range of electives you can design your programme to meet your ambitions and interests.
• Over the past decade, our BA and MA courses have been rated as the best in The Netherlands in the  Keuzegids  university rankings.
• Our academic staff have a reputation for excellence in teaching and research. Their research contributes to pressing debates in society and their findings are brought into the classroom to shape education.
• Our student body is composed of domestic and international students. This year's cohort, for instance, had 40% international students from countries such as Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Romania, the USA, India, China and others.
• We foster independent thinking and always strive to provide the care and support needed for each student to fulfil their potential.
• Our learning community celebrates diversity in ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age and neurotypes.

As part of the programme, students can opt to complete a 10-credit work placement (an internship). Our graduates have often gone on to work at the same institutions at which they undertook their internships. At the Faculty of Arts, students are responsible for finding a placement for themselves and having it approved by the placement coordinator for their programme.

• Recent placements have taken students to: Noordhoff Publishing, Malmberg BV, Boom Publishing, Staal & Roeland, Deviant Publishing, Nobelman Publishing, Koninklijke Brill NV, Xander Publishing, Global Textware, Boekscout Publishing, Luitingh-Sijthoff Publishing, De Fonteijn Publishing, Cossee Amsterdam, Utrecht University Library, The National Library in Den Haag, Wordwell Group, Dublin, and the Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam.
• Within the University of Groningen, the Special Collections department of the UG Library and the University Translation and Correction Service are keen to work with WEM Master's students.

After graduating from the MA Writing, Editing and Mediating programme, you will be equipped with academic and professional skills that will prepare you for further study at PhD level and for the job market. You will have developed the ability to:

• Think independently.
• Present in a professional setting.
• Work as a part of a team.
• Undertake individual research projects.
• Communicate professionally for a range of different audiences, from a generalist popular audience to academic specialists.

• Covering Arthurian Novels: Cover Design as an Integral Part of Book Marketing.
• Gender and Homosexuality in Gloria Anzaldúa, Estela Portillo Trambley and Ana Castillo
• Contemporary Writer-Reader Dynamics and Authorial Practices.
• Robinsonades and British Imperialism.
• Victorian and Contemporary Criminality in Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes Narratives and BBC’s Sherlock .
• An edition of The Diary of John Lewis : Thoughts of an 18th-Century Minister.
• The Literary Digital Archive and its Mediations.
• Children’s Adaptations of Robinson Crusoe and Don Quixote in Eighteenth-Century England.
• The Agenda of Early AIDS Theatre: As Is and The Normal Heart as Works of Authoritarian Fiction.
• Recently Built and Remodelled Public Libraries: The Design of Today’s Public Library Buildings.
• Fanfiction as an Opportunity for Understanding and Exploring Queer Identity.
• The New Yorker and Its Influence.
• Contemporary Dutch Fiction in English Translation as World Literature.