• “I got my M.A. at UVM because I wanted to prepare for a PhD and see if I liked teaching at the university level. Through my job as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, I discovered how much I love teaching while also continuing to build my research skills!” -Mckenzie, second-year GTA
• “As an AMP student, it was a great way to further develop relationships with professors I met in undergrad while continuing rigorous study” -Cam, second-year AMP

• “I like the experience of teaching writing while still doing my own studies.

  There’s a nice balance!” -Madeleine, first-year GTA

Applications are processed through the Graduate College. The deadline to apply is February 1st

Application Requirements:

• Electronic Application
• Statement of Purpose
• Application Fee of $65.00
• Email addresses for three people who will provide letters of recommendation. This information is submitted within the application and letters are sent from the recommender directly to us through the application portal.
• One transcript from each institution you have attended, including the one you currently attend. Unofficial transcripts uploaded by you are sufficient for the review process for most programs (Public Health applicants, please review your requirements). Official transcripts are only required if you are admitted. Please have official transcripts sent directly from your institution(s) to graduate.admissions@uvm.edu.
• Residential Status Questionnaire (for in-state tuition purposes)
• Test scores for English proficiency for applicants whose native language is not English.
• Resumes are not required but may be submitted .
• English Department Requirements::
• Statement of Purpose: This should be a 1-2 page document that explains your motivations for pursuing graduate study in English at UVM and gives a sense of how you have prepared for that study. The document should focus on your intellectual and professional interests rather than on personal issues
• Writing Sample: Submit a 10 to 15 page sample of critical writing that showcases your best work in literary analysis. An essay from an undergraduate English class would be ideal. Do not submit creative writing. Successful writing samples will demonstrate a clear ability to analyze texts within a particular critical or theoretical framework.
• GRE: This program does not require the GRE General Test or the GRE Subject Test

• Graduate Teaching Assistantships provide a full tuition waiver plus a stipend (currently $23,000) for both years of the program. GTAs receive training in pedagogy, and teach in the university's First-Year Writing Program (3 courses each academic year).
• Non-teaching merit scholarships are available for MA students (18-credit tuition scholarship).

• Jazz and the Cultural Imagination
• Queer Literature
•  Schuyler & the New York School
•  The Book of Mormon & Its World
•  Morrison & Walker
•  Postcolonial Shakespeare
•  Poe & the Gothic
•  Rhetoric and Social Justice
•  Victorian Literature & Culture
•  The Darkroom Collective

2024 

• Katherine Booth “Radical Resistance: Grounded Normativity in Three Speculative Works.” 

• Sarah Gäss “Beauty as a Mode of Being: Enacting Queer Listening to Parse the Cultural and Affective Resonance of Sad Girl Pop.” 

• Aki Jacobson “Economics, Platforms and the Formal Structure of Webcomics.” 

• Mara Knoecklein “‘To Be On the Move Again at Least is Something:’ Ann Quin, Gilles Deleuze, and the Spectacular Nomadism of Capital.” 

• Marina Palladinetti “The Way European Standards of Beauty Affect Black Girls and Black Women: Maintaining White Innocence in Feminism.” 

• Madi Rougier “‘A Narrative is a Living Body:’ Trans Relations in Contemporary Transmasculine Fiction.”  

• Madison Storm “Promethean Romanticism: A Study of the Shelleys’ Prometheus Figures.”  

2023 

• Caleb Hayes “Horror and Representation: Violence in the Construction of Postindian Literary and Cinematic Identities.” 

• Chapman Matis “Get Rich and Die Trying: Capitalism, Its Repetitions, and the Financial Plot.” 

• Joy Mazahreh “Alef is a Key: Belonging and Resistance in MENA Women's Fragmentary Narratives.” 

• Eleanor McDowell “From Green Romanticism to Plant Thinking: Environmental Vitality in William Wordsworth and Thomas Hardy's Nature.” 

• Devon Moore “‘They Made Me and Destroyed Me, and, Mr. Zuckerman, They Aren’t Finished with Me Yet:’ J.D. Salinger, Philip Roth, and the Subject of Late Modernism.” 

• Cade Olmstead “The Crypt of Being: On the Gothic Sensibility of Reason.”  

• Edwin Owusu “Race, Fantasy and Enjoyment.” 

• Miles Parkinson “Trickle-Down Poetics in the Paranoid Mode of Liberalism.” 

• Noah Slowik “The Future of the Air: H.G. Wells and the Aviation of Utopia.” 

2022 

• Curtis Browne “‘he went out and subdued them:’ The Significance of the Haitian Revolution in Absalom, Absalom!” 

• Oliver Creech “Lingering with Hegel and the Madhyamaka School: Lack in Anna Karenina and Swann’s Way.” 

• Christopher Kelm “The Reformist Exemplum of the Monastic Bishop in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People.” 

• Grady Kennison “The Sublime Object of Digitality: Psychoanalysis and Cyberspace.” 

• Reid Lemker “‘The Side of those Not Fighting for the Children:’ Reproductive Futurism and the Female Sinthomosexual.”  

• Alexandra Perlow “The Voice of a Generation: Musical Persona and the Role of Myth in the Collective Memory of Bob Dylan’s 1965 Newport Performance.”  

2021 

• Cameron Bauserman “Familiar Forms, Unfamiliar Containers: A Formal Examination of the Body, Mind, and Community in Black Women’s Science Fiction and Fantasy.” 

• Mckenzie Bergan “‘Can You Tell When There is a Good Fire?’ Haunting and Ecogothic Violence in Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, and The Moonstone.” 

• Emma Giering “The Origins of Manufactured Dissent and the Efficacy of Climate Change Narratives.” 

• Seunghyun Shin “How Postmodernist Poetry Imagines” 

• Emily Thibodeau “A Deed Without a Name: Magical Social Reproduction in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream,  Macbeth, and The Tempest.”