The Department of English offers students the chance to pursue a literature Ph.D. in fields from the British Middle Ages and colonial America to global/postcolonial and U.S. contemporary literatures, with further strengths in literature and science, literature and environment, literary theory, translation, and gender studies. Faculty members' interdisciplinary interests and affiliations with other programs complement the program's grounding in traditional genres and methods of literary analysis as well as emerging methodologies. This wide range also characterizes our M.A. degree in creative writing -- students take workshops in both poetry and fiction, as well as literature seminars. The department's commitment to ongoing mentoring of scholarship and teaching is reflected in the success of program graduates. For the past several years the department has helped place students in tenure-track jobs at institutions nationwide -- from research universities to liberal arts colleges.

This is a Departmentally-based Graduate Program.

For more information, visit the English Web site.

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