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Graduate Studies

English Graduate Studies offer graduate degrees in six major fields. Click on the areas to see their individual web pages:

Creative Writing

Second Language Studies/ESL

English Language & Linguistics

Rhetoric and Composition

Theory and Cultural Studies

Literary Studies:

Medieval

Renaissance

Eighteenth Century

Nineteenth Century

Twentieth and Twenty-first Century

With fifty-seven faculty members specializing in these six major fields of study and Related Areas, the graduate program is among the largest, most diverse, and most intellectually challenging in the country. A range of Financial Resources are available to fund students, including Teaching Assistantships in the Department's nationally renowned composition program.

This website is designed to offer easy access to procedures, policies, degree-granting programs, and other relevant information pertaining to graduate study in English, with the click of a mouse. We hope it provides answers to your basic questions.