English

Degrees Offered: M.A., Ph.D.
http://ase.tufts.edu/english/graduate/
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Graduate study in English and American literature is pursued through a program that is both rigorous and flexible. Faculty expertise spans an impressive range of historical periods, authors, literary and aesthetic movements, and critical discourses. Special interests include interdisciplinary approaches to cultural studies; women's, gender, and sexuality studies; post-colonialism; and literary theory.

Each year, papers are solicited nationally for an academic conference organized by graduate students. Past topics include: "Territorial Inscriptions: Mapping, Space, and Language" and "Violence and Domesticity."

Most students admitted to the master's program proceed to doctoral studies. Most doctoral graduates hold academic positions in universities and colleges, although a few secure jobs in secondary schools, publishing, or as researchers for foundations or public television.

FACULTY/SPECIALTY

Elizabeth Ammons
Ph.D., University of Illinois
U.S. literature, race studies

Linda Bamber
Ph.D., Tufts University
Women and literature, Shakespeare

Jay Cantor
Ph.D., University of California-Santa Cruz
History of consciousness, modernism

Deborah Digges
M.F.A., University of Iowa
Modern poetry

Kevin Dunn
Ph.D.,Yale University
Sixteenth-and seventeenth-century England, Shakespeare, Milton, the Bible as literature

Lee Edelman
Ph.D., Yale University
Literary theory/queer theory, cultural studies, film

Sheila Emerson
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Nineteenth-century literature

Carol Flynn
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
Eighteenth-century British literature

John M. Fyler
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
Chaucer, medieval literature

Judith Haber
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
Renaissance literature

Sonia Hofkosh
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
British romantic literature, gender studies, visual and material culture

Virginia Jackson
Ph.D., Princeton University
Nineteenth-century American literature

Joseph Litvak
Ph.D., Yale University
Nineteenth-century British literature, Jewish cultural studies

Lecia Rosenthal
Ph.D., Columbia University
Modernism, twentieth-century British literature, literary theory

Modhumita Roy
Ph.D., State University of New York-Stony Brook
World literature in English

Christina Sharpe
Ph.D.,Cornell University
Black cultural studies, visual arts, African diasporic and multi-ethnic literature

Jonathan Strong
B.A., Harvard University
Creative writing

Michael Ullman
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Expository writing, Modernism, African-American music

Jonathan Wilson
Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Writing, Jewish-American fiction, contemporary memoir

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