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WELCOME! The UGA Graduate English Program offers M.A., M.F.A., and Ph.D. degrees. As a large program, we are able to offer a wide variety of courses, ranging from the traditional to the innovative. Courses in literary periods, major authors, and theoretical movements are supplemented by specialized seminars based on current faculty research interests. Topics taught in recent seminars include "Literature, Media and Information in the Nineteenth Century," "Modernism and the Aristocracy," "Urban Modernity," "Novels of the Romantic Period," "Pleasure and the Text," "American Poetry and the Art of the Everyday," "Ethnic American Women Writers," "The Early Modern Body," and "Films About the South." Such a variety of course offerings signals both our recognition of intellectual and disciplinary change and our abiding commitment to traditional literary history. Course offerings arise from faculty research interests, and because we have very few course requirements -particularly at the doctoral level- our program encourages students to follow the example of an intellectually engaged faculty in designing their own programs of study. Recognizing that the burden of professional development is shared by graduate students and faculty alike, we work closely with our graduate students to help them develop professionally as scholars and teachers. Acknowledging that research, publication, and undergraduate teaching are never distinct practices, we provide opportunities to connect research with teaching, to present scholarly work to a range of audiences, and to become part of a larger intellectual community beyond the English Department.
Graduate English News For news on our exceptional graduate students and their recent awards and publications, please see our news page.
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