Graduate English Interests

Choose three from your Major Interest Area

Master’s/PhD in Literary Studies OR Master’s in Afro-American Studies with Bridge to Ph.D. in Literary Studies
African American Lit
American Indian/Indigeneity Studies
American Lit to 1865
American Lit-1865 to 1945
American Lit-1945 to present
American Lit-Colonial
Asian American Lit
Early Modern/Renaissance British Lit
Eighteenth-century British Lit
British Lit since 1914
Contemporary Lit, Critical Theory
Cultural Studies
Digital Humanities
Disability Studies
Ecocriticism
Ethnic/Race Studies
Gender Studies/Feminist Theory/women’s Writing
Genre Studies-Creative Nonfiction
Genre Studies-Drama
Genre Studies-Novel
Genre Studies-Poetry
Medieval Lit
Migration/diaspora/border studies
Modernist Studies, Narrative
Performance Studies
Postcolonial Studies
Postmodernism
Print Culture/Book History
Queer Studies/LGBT Lit
Romanticism-Middle Modernity
Transatlantic Studies
Trauma Studies
Victorian-Middle Modernity
Anglophone Lit/World Literature

Master’s in Afro-American Studies with a Bridge to Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric
Access and Equity in Education
Contemporary Composition Theory
History of Rhetoric
Language and Social Interaction
Language Diversity and Politics
Literacy
Rhetorical Theory
Visual Rhetoric

Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric
Access and Equity in Education
Contemporary Composition Theory
Digital Studies
Gender and Sexuality
History of Rhetoric
Language and Social Interaction
Language Diversity and Politics
Literacy
Research Methods
Race, Ethnicity, Culture
Rhetorical Theory
Visual Rhetoric

Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics
(The) Global Spread of English
Classroom Discourse Analysis
Conversation Analysis
Critical perspectives on language acquisition and use
Discourse Analysis
Interactional Competence
Interactional Linguistics
Language and Social Interaction
Second/Multilingual Language Acquisition
Structure of English (Syntax/Morphology/Phonology)
Synchronic and Diachronic Variation of English