Graduate Programs in English
Our graduate programs let you work directly with leading scholars in their field. You'll learn directly from ground-breaking scholars and work side by side with other up and coming academics and writers in your cohort.
Explore the Art and Power of Literature
Our M.A. and Ph.D. in English are funded graduate programs in literary studies and homes for innovative, transformative scholarship. Our award-winning teaching and acclaimed scholars guide students in their intellectual and professional development as educators, researchers, and writers. Our faculty includes nationally and internationally recognized scholars who are leaders in their fields. They study American, British, and World literatures from the Medieval past to today.
Our programs combine disciplinary expertise with interdisciplinary collaboration. We bring the lessons and analytic skills of literary scholarship to cultural studies, film and media studies, Southern studies, environmental studies, book history, gender and sexuality studies, multicultural literatures, and more.
Our lively and supportive department community regularly hosts dynamic visiting speakers and includes reading groups and colloquia where faculty and graduate students explore shared interests and work in progress.
There’s no better place for your graduate in literary studies degree than our department, located in the South’s greatest literary town.
Meet the Director of Graduate Studies
Our academic graduate programs are designed to prepare you for whatever your future holds. Whether your dreams is being a professor, a published author, or an excellent communicator, our programs will help get you there.
Jason David Solinger
Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of English
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