The English Department strives to create a collaborative and inclusive environment for graduate students. We offer seminars on a range of periods and genres in American, British, and postcolonial literatures, as well as composition, rhetoric, and critical theory. Students choose either the thesis track or the comprehensive track (see details below) and work closely with faculty while pursuing an individualized research plan. Faculty members are engaged in current research in diverse areas of expertise. Our fully-funded Graduate Teaching Assistantships offer pedagogical training and experience teaching at the university level.