The Graduate Program in English offers five areas of specialization (called concentrations) at the doctoral level: Literary Studies, Rhetoric and Composition, Creative Writing, English Language and Linguistics, and Modern Studies.
Students are encouraged to pursue inter and crossdisciplinary research in English and American Literature and Language and to develop individualized programs of study in a number of key areas, including literary history and theory, fiction and poetry writing, critical pedagogy and linguistics, film and media studies, teaching English as a second language, business and technical writing, rhetorical theory, performance studies, queer theory, and multiculturalism.
Graduate courses examine literary figures and periods as well as popular culture and classical rhetoric, computers and writing, gender and genre, and peer tutoring and peer response.
The Department offers approximately 45 teaching assistantships annually, with stipends of approximately $11,000 at the master's level, and $13,000 at the doctoral level, and remits the out-of-state portion of tuition.
You may want to see a list of recent courses taught in the department, email graduate students to ask questions about department programs, or read student and faculty profiles.
The department is hosting a conference (scheduled for March 1996) on "Discerning the Right: The Civil, the Moral, the Political."
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