Our department is a vibrant and thriving intellectual community and offers a supportive and stimulating environment in which to do your graduate work. From our perspective, graduate study consists of work that happens both in seminars and in the many conversations that happen outside them: formally and informally, among and between faculty and students.

The Master's Program offers highly-motivated students the opportunity to study literature at an advanced level in an English department with an international reputation.

The Poetics Program takes as its principle that literary artists should teach both the art of writing and the theory of writing practice.

A list of graduate courses regularly offered in the English department.

The CSPC is one of the premiere places to study psychoanalysis, culture, and language in North America.

Graduate study in English extends beyond the classroom. Join student organizations and reading groups where you can exchange ideas, explore shared interests, connect with fellow scholars and take an active role in the intellectual life of the department.

Look through our available Fellowships for Research, Conference Travel, and Continued Support; Dissertation Fellowships; and Teaching Awards and Opportunities.

Under the supervision of the Director of Graduate Placement and with the active participation of many faculty members, the English Department assists and advises graduate students during their job searches. This help is available to graduate students seeking jobs within or outside academia.

Information and advice on how to prepare your application to the PhD and Master's Programs.

Our graduate students are incredibly active in research, in the creative arts, and in the profession. In the past five years, they have received the following awards: a Visiting Artist Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome; a Ralph Emerson Society Dissertation Grant; an AAUW Dissertation Grant, and a Humboldt Foundation Fellowship. They have published critical articles and creative work in major journals and magazines. And they’ve written and translated novels, performed poetry at MoMA, and written an award-winning documentary film.

The scholarly dispositions, practical skills, and professional ethics fostered through graduate level training in English cannot be outsourced to generative artificial intelligence technologies without seriously undermining the basic premises of the discipline. For this primary reason, the Department of English strictly prohibits the use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in the creation and revision of scholarly writing for all work done at the graduate level.