The general thrust of our program is to prepare graduate students for academic careers at colleges and universities (although some of our graduates have chosen other career paths).
With a faculty of 17 professors, the Department is particularly strong in the following areas of literary study: Modern American Literature; Ethnic Literatures; Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century British Literature; British Modernism; Critical Theory, Cultural Studies and Gender Studies. The graduate faculty in the Department offer extensive preparation in Methods for Literary Research and in Literary Theory.
The Department has additional strengths in Film Studies as well as in Rhetorical Theory, Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, and Composition.
The Department organizes its collective research profile around WHiT and two other Research Foci
Specific ongoing faculty research projects include studies in:
• authorship and intellectual property;
• authorship and impersonality in Anglo-American fiction;
• biography & autobiography;
• bi-cultural identity in Chinese and Jewish American literature;
• detective fiction; World Literature
• discourses of depression;
• innovations in print technology and eighteenth narratives;
• film history, genres, and reception;
• language and representation in institutes of exhibition (e.g., zoos & museums);
• literary translation;
• literature, empire, and globalization;
• literature and the visual arts;
• rhetorical theory and the cognitive sciences;
• Victorian literature and psychology;
among others.
For more information on our program concentrations, click on the following links:
• Ph.D.: Literature Concentration
• MA: Literature Concentration
• Ph.D.: WHiT Concentration
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General Education Requirements
Ph.D. in Literature
Ph.D. in Writing History & Theory
M.A. Program in English
(download the M.A. reading list for 2007-2008 - Word File)
Financial Aid/ Support
How to Apply & Application Form
International Students
Research, Teaching & Mentoring/ Advising
Recent Graduate Courses (Word file)
Job Placement
M.A. Theses and Doctoral Dissertations since 1998
Published Dissertations (since 1991)
Graduate Handbook (Word)
Graduate Handbook (pdf)
English 701 progress forms:
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