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.
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Publications by Doctoral Recipients
Ellen Crowell, Ed Madden, and Karen Steele
Apr 04, 2008