English, MA

Overview

Graduate Program

The English Master of Arts Program at Clark enables students to pursue advanced studies in literature and cultural theory in a close-knit community and vibrant campus setting, oriented around one-on-one study with a faculty mentor and an area rich with archives and cultural resources. 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

Dianne Berg, Ph.D., VAP
Elizabeth Blake, Ph.D.
Betsy P. Huang, Ph.D.
Lisa Kasmer, Ph.D. - Department Chair
Stephen M. Levin, Ph.D. - Director of Graduate Studies in English
Meredith Neuman, Ph.D.- Interim Chair S’25
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

Courses

• ENG 300 - Pedagogy I
• ENG 301 - Pedagogy II
• ENG 302 - Pedagogy III
• ENG 303 - Pedagogy IV
• ENG 317 - Early Asian/American and Pacific Islander Literature
• ENG 325 - American Print Culture, 1700-1900
• ENG 327 - The Book in the Early Modern World
• ENG 330 - Reading Voraciously: Food and Literature in the 20th Century
• ENG 331 - Queer Modernisms
• ENG 332 - Modernist Literature
• ENG 334 - Virginia Woolf
• ENG 338 - Contemporary Latino/a Literature
• ENG 340 - Introduction to Graduate Study in English
• ENG 342 - Graduate Seminar: Special Topics
• ENG 344 - Literatures of Remembrance: Colonialism, the Holocaust, and Global Memory
• ENG 348 - Contemporary Literary Theory
• ENG 350 - Medieval Literature
• ENG 353 - Advanced Studies in Shakespeare
• ENG 354 - History of the English Language
• ENG 355 - Studies in the Renaissance
• ENG 356 - Ecologies in Crisis
• ENG 360 - Making Gender through the Eighteenth-Century Novel
• ENG 362 - Special Topics in 19th-Century British Literature
• ENG 363 - Traumatic Tales: National Trauma in Romantic Literature
• ENG 364 - Queer Victorians
• ENG 370 - Special Topics in Literature
• ENG 376 - Ethnic America: Literature, Theory, Politics
• ENG 379 - Fictions of Asian America
• ENG 380 - Studies in Contemporary Fiction: Transpacific Speculations
• ENG 381 - Special Topics in 19th-C American Literature
• ENG 382 - American Literary Renaissance
• ENG 385 - Topics in Seventeenth-Century Literature
• ENG 390 - Departmental Colloquium
• ENG 392 - Toni Morrison
• ENG 393 - Special Topics in African American Literature
• ENG 394 - African American Literary and Critical Race Theory
• ENG 396 - Writing the Thesis
• ENG 397 - Master’s Thesis
• ENG 399 - Graduate Directed Study