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We offer intensive courses in all periods of English and American literature, in literary theory, drama and performance studies, film, media, and cultural studies, feminism and gender studies, and African-American, world Anglophone, post-colonial and Asian-American literatures. Across these fields, the faculty share a commitment to rigorous and grounded literary work. This commitment has been rewarded with a strong record in placement. Our graduate students find leading positions at national research universities and teaching colleges.
The program is designed to ensure that
a wide range of study at the beginning of
a student's career will provide a strong foundation
for a more specialized concentration later
on.
The Ph.D. is attained by means of the following stages of study:
- Course
Work - Fourteen courses (or 42 credits).
- Ph.D. Qualifying Examination (orals) - Six additional credits are earned in preparing for the Qualifying Examination, for a total of 48 credits. Admission to the Ph.D. comes with successful completion of the Qualifying Examination.
- Dissertation - Advancement to candidacy through submission of the dissertation proposal.
- Dissertation.
- Defense of Dissertation.
The Graduate Program and the system of financial aid that supports it, has been formulated so as to ensure that five to six years for the completion of the Ph.D. degree is a realistic expectation.
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