The M.A. and Ph.D. programs in literature provide students with professional preparation for teaching and conducting scholarly research at the university, college, and community college levels. Students in the Graduate Literature Program have the opportunity to work with faculty engaged in a wide variety of innovative research projects. Faculty research interests span a broad range of fields and critical methods and include most of the major recent intellectual trends in literary study. In addition to the traditional fields of English and American literature, students may concentrate in cross-disciplinary areas such as
- American Literature and Culture
- Border Studies
- Gender Studies
- Medieval and Early Modern Studies
- American Indian Studies
- Visual and Digital Cultures
- Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
- Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature and Theory
- Rhetorical Theory
- Comparative Modernisms
For admission to the M.A. Program, applicants must have completed the equivalent of the undergraduate major in English (i.e. 30 units of upper-division literature courses) with a grade-point average of at least 3.50. For admission to the Ph.D. Program, applicants must hold an M.A. in English.
M.A. Program : Requirements & Options
Ph.D. Program : Requirements & Options
The Foreign Language Requirement
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