Welcome to the Graduate Studies Homepage

The English Department maintains four degree-granting graduate programs:

- Literature (MA and PhD)
- Creative Writing (MFA)
- Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of
English, known as RCTE (MA and PhD)
- English Language/Linguistics, known as EL/L
(MA; this program maintains strong ties to the
interdisciplinary PhD program in Second Language
Acquisition and Teaching [SLAT])
- General MA, flexible program that includes curricula
from Literature, RCTE, and EL/L
- English Graduate Union (EGU), represents all
English graduate students
- Financial Opportunities, a list of current opportunities and financial support available to graduate students in the Department of English

Each of these programs is separately administered and has a separate application procedure. In general (some programs may make exceptions or have a different deadline) applications are due in early January (for matriculation the following September). Admissions are highly selective. The department therefore urges prospective applicants to confer, by early autumn at the latest, with the Director of the individual program in which they are interested.

To access the home page for an individual program, select its name from the links on this page. Basic contact information for each program, as well as some additional material about graduate study in the department, also appears on the General Information screen.

We'd like to make the graduate program pages useful to current students, faculty, and staff, as well as to prospective applicants. Suggestions can be sent to: mmarma@u.arizona.edu. As a rule, inquiries about individual programs should NOT be sent to this address; however, if you cannot find adequate contact information for the program in which you are interested, please feel free to direct inquiries here.

Tenney Nathanson
Coordinator of Graduate Studies
Department of English