Overview

Graduate Admissions

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Program information:

 

Distinguished Faculty

Our faculty's achievement have been widely recognized through a variety of awards, prizes, editorial positions, and other honors. English department faculty hold fellowships from institutions like the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, and the American Council of Learned Societies; the Fulbright, Guggenheim, Mellon, and Rockefeller Foundations; and the Huntington, Newberry, and Folger Libraries.

Current faculty include:

  • The Director and Founding Member of the Lazarus Project
  • A MacArthur Foundation fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist
  • The Director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

The Department of English continues to advance the missions of two pioneering digital archives in memoriam to the founding faculty:

Areas of Strength

Centrally committed to literary study across the full range of British and American literatures, our department is known for its combination of aesthetic, formal, and historical analysis—blending both close-reading and theoretical approaches.

Each of the core strengths of our program offers a variety of opportunities for involvement by graduate students:

Questions?

Contact the Director of Graduate Studies, with academic queries.

Contact Carrie Morriss, Graduate Coordinator, with administrative queries:

Graduate Student Handbook

Please consult the Department of English Graduate Student Handbook for the most up-to-date requirements of the graduate programs in English, including, but not limited to: field exams, language requirements, teaching pedagogy, and advisor selection.

For rules and regulations concerning graduate-level study at the University of Rochester, see the Graduate Bulletin.