English, MA

Overview

Graduate Program
The program leading to the Master of Arts in English encourages innovative, individually designed approaches of study and more traditional approaches to literature. The controlled size of the program fosters an atmosphere of intensive intellectual exchange among faculty and students. Teaching assistantships with tuition remission plus stipend and full- and part-time tuition-remission scholarships are available on a competitive basis. 

Graduate Requirements

For the Master of Arts, the student must satisfactorily complete at least eight upper-level courses or seminars, which include ENG 340 - Introduction to Graduate Study in English , and ENG 397 - Master’s Thesis . Graduate students will receive 300-level designations for graduate-level course work in those 200-level courses deemed suitable for graduate credit and for which they are expected to complete extra graduate requirements. Students are also required to register for and participate in ENG 390 - Departmental Colloquium  (no course credit), where they will present working drafts on some aspect of their thesis topics. In addition to completion of the master’s thesis (ENG 397 ), the student must pass a final oral examination.

Program Faculty

Louis Bastien, Ph.D.
Eric De Barros, Ph.D.
James Elliott, Ph.D.
Betsy P. Huang, Ph.D.
Esther Jones, Ph.D.
Lisa Kasmer, Ph.D. - Department Chair
Stephen M. Levin, Ph.D. - Director of Graduate Studies in English
Meredith Neuman, Ph.D.
 

Adjunct Faculty

Michael Bamberg, Ph.D.
Gino DiIorio, M.F.A.
Robert Tobin, Ph.D.
Jaan Valsiner, Ph.D.

Emeriti Faculty

John J. Conron, Ph.D.
SunHee Kim Gertz, Ph.D., Research Professor
Serena S. Hilsinger, Ph.D.
Fern Johnson, Ph.D., Research Professor
Virginia Mason Vaughan, Ph.D., Research Professor
 

Graduate Studies in English

Stephen M. Levin, Ph.D., Director

Courses

• ENG 300 - Pedagogy I
• ENG 301 - Pedagogy II
• ENG 302 - Pedagogy III
• ENG 303 - Pedagogy IV
• ENG 322 - Black Political Literary Movements of the 20th Century
• ENG 325 - American Print Culture, 1700-1900
• ENG 332 - Modernist Literature
• ENG 338 - Contemporary Latino/a Literature
• ENG 340 - Introduction to Graduate Study in English
• ENG 342 - Graduate Seminar: Special Topics
• ENG 343 - Literary Theory & Global Culture
• ENG 345 - Mythopoetics
• ENG 348 - Contemporary Literary Theory
• ENG 349 - Signs and Crossroads: Semiotic Theory and Practice
• ENG 350 - Medieval Literature
• ENG 351 - Chaucer
• ENG 353 - Advanced Studies in Shakespeare
• ENG 355 - Studies in the Renaissance
• ENG 360 - Making Gender through the Eighteenth-Century Novel
• ENG 361 - Gender and Genre in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
• ENG 362 - Special Topics in 19th-Century British Literature
• ENG 363 - Traumatic Tales: British Romantic Literature and Nationhood
• ENG 375 - Fictions of Empire: Studies in Global English Literature
• ENG 376 - Ethnic America: Literature, Theory, Politics
• ENG 379 - Fictions of Asian America
• ENG 380 - Studies in Contemporary Fiction: Literary Speculations
• ENG 381 - Special Topics in 19th-C American Literature
• ENG 384 - Special Topics in 17th- and 18th-Century American Literature
• ENG 385 - Topics in Seventeenth-Century Literature
• ENG 390 - Departmental Colloquium
• ENG 397 - Master’s Thesis
• ENG 399 - Graduate Directed Study