Graduate
The English Department at The University of Texas at Austin offers a stimulating graduate curriculum and intellectual community. With a diverse, engaged, and accomplished faculty, this ninety-person department covers a rich array of traditional fields of literary and rhetorical study and also reflects contemporary theoretical and cultural approaches that cut across these fields.
We offer a PhD program with eleven concentrations: English Literature; American Literature; Ethnic and Third-World Literature; Women, Gender, and Literature; Popular Culture/Cultural Studies/Folklore; English Language and Linguistics; Rhetoric; Bibliography and Textual Criticism; Medieval and Renaissance Literature; Poetry and Poetics, and Computers and English.
We also offer an M.A. in Creative Writing.
As these programs suggest, the department is engaged not only in meeting but in helping to shape the challenges of a complex, rapidly changing academic discipline. Increasingly, graduate courses have examined relationships between writing and other cultural practices and have explored the social, historical, and rhetorical processes by which literature is constituted.
Current News
Four Michener Center students recognized with the 2009 Keene Prize for Literature
Winner Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig; Finalists Malachi Black, Sarah Cornwell, and Sarah Smith
Oct 07, 2009
Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film (Ohio State Press, 2008)
Sep 03, 2009
Peter Caster
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Tiresian Poestics: Modernism, Sexuality, Voice, 1881-2001 (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008)
Ed Madden
Jul 03, 2009
Visiting Lecturer and UT English Alum Susan Somers-Willett Publishes Two Major Books
Jun 10, 2009
English Department Graduate Student Successes
May 06, 2009
Texas Studies in Literature and Language presents Spring 2009 edition
Samuel Beckett in Austin and Beyond (51.1, March 2009)
Mar 12, 2009
UT Graduate Chris LeCluyse (Ph.D. 2002) Nominated for Two Grammys
The Austin-based Conspirare choir has been nominated for "Threshold of Night"
Feb 05, 2009
Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism and Chicana/o Literature (University of Texas Press, 2008)
Oct 08, 2008
Sheila Marie Contreras
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Quests: Design, Theory and History in Games and Narratives (AK Peters Ltd, 2008)
Jul 08, 2008
Jeff Howard
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The Grateful Slave (Cambridge, 2008)
The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture
Jul 08, 2008
George Boulukos
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The Dandy in Irish and American Southern Fiction: Aristocratic Drag (Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures)
(Edinburgh University Press, 2007)
Jul 07, 2008
Ellen Crowell
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British Representations of Latin America (University Press of Florida, 2007)
Jul 07, 2008
Luz Elena Ramirez
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Other South: Faulkner, Coloniality, and the Mariátegni Tradition (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007)
Jul 07, 2008
Hosam Aboul-Ela
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Women, Press, and Politics During the Irish Revival (Syracuse University Press, 2007)
Jul 07, 2008
Karen Steele
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Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
A Culture of Paper Credit
Jul 05, 2008
Catherine E. Ingrassia
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