Program: English, MA - Clark University - Modern Campus Catalog™

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 partial 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 . (A graduate-level seminar is offered as a substitute for ENG 340 in select years.) 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. Students receive a final grade for (ENG 397 ) upon successful completion of the thesis and an oral defense with their committee.

Program Faculty

Louis Bastien, Ph.D.
Dianne Berg, Ph.D., VAP
Elizabeth Blake, Ph.D.
Betsy P. Huang, Ph.D.
Esther Jones, Ph.D.
Lisa Kasmer, Ph.D.
Stephen M. Levin, Ph.D. - Director of Graduate Studies in English
Meredith Neuman, Ph.D.- Department Chair
Jeff Noh, Ph.D., VAP
Kourtney Senquiz, Ph.D., VAP
Justin L. P. Shaw, Ph.D.

Emeriti Faculty

John J. Conron, Ph.D.
James P. Elliott, Ph.D., Senior Research Professor
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