Vision Statement
The MA/PhD in English degree (Literature Program) advances a curriculum that develops the analytical tools, diverse perspectives, and historical depth necessary for understanding the present. We explore the reciprocal relations between the marginal and the dominant, the past and the present, and the literary and non-literary. We marshal the most exciting, consequential, and diverse ideas that address the urgent challenges our students will engage.
About the Program
Our Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy programs in English will prepare you for teaching and conducting scholarly research at the university, college, and community college levels. The M.A. is designed both as a basis for the Ph.D. and as a program for students who for personal or professional reasons wish to pursue advanced literary studies. The Ph.D. provides professional training for academic appointments at colleges and universities; we also offer preparation and guidance for those who plan to enter non-academic professions.
Our program is staffed by a strong faculty doing innovative research engaging a full range of current critical methodologies and questions, across nearly all the traditional fields of literature. Additionally, each semester, graduate seminars typically explore cutting-edge issues that intersect both faculty's current research and emerging critical trends.
Interdisciplinary Environment
You may concentrate in a number of cross-disciplinary areas :
- 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
Several of our students choose to develop interdisciplinary research profiles, sometimes by minoring in a discipline other than English, among them a newly developed program in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory. You may also pursue a Ph.D. minor with other UA departments with approval from your committee chair and the Literature Program Director.
For more on the program please go to: https://english.arizona.edu/literature