Graduate Studies
The English department has three distinguished graduate degree programs: PHD, MFA, and MA.
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Phd Program emphasizes cultural and critical studies
As one of the first to emphasize cultural and critical studies in the nation, our PhD program has been hailed as a leader of innovation in English studies. Recently our program was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as one of seven participants in the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate, a multi-year project designed to rethink the nature of doctoral education in the United States. Our faculty has many distinguished scholars whose strengths include cultural theory and criticism, British and American literary history, composition and pedagogy, and film and television studies.
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MFA in Writing
Our MFA program is one of the oldest in the country, and is ranked among the top programs in the country. With internationally distinguished writers among its faculty, the MFA offers intensive workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, along with readings courses in a variety of contemporary writing.
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MA in English
The MA in English offers students the opportunity to undertake graduate work across a variety of historical periods and representational practices. We seek to examine the relationships across diverse writing practices by close and theoretically informed readings. Students can elect to concentrate their elective work broadly across English studies, or they can focus in the programmatic areas of the department (literature, film studies, composition, and children’s literature)
