English Language and Literature (ENGL)
Graduate Degree Program
College: Arts and Humanities
Abstract
The Department of English offers graduate study leading to the Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees; particular strengths of the department include early British literature; American literature; literature of the African diaspora; postcolonial and transnational literary studies; digital humanities; feminist theory and gender studies; and composition and rhetoric. The Department also offers a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing (See listing for Creative Writing). Most students enrolled in graduate programs in English Language and Literature seek employment in higher education, but many also seek non-academic employment in publishing, business and technical writing, administration, and personnel management. To assist with placement, the department has a Placement Director and the university has a Career Development Center.
Financial Assistance
The English Department, in conjunction with the College of Arts and Humanities and the Graduate School, awards a combination of fellowships and teaching assistantships to admitted PhD candidates. Limited financial aid (usually in the form of teaching assistantships) is available to some incoming MA students.
Contact
Tawes Hall
7751 Alumni Drive
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Email: englishgrad@umd.edu
Website: http://www.english.umd.edu
Courses: ENGL
Relationships: Comparative Literature (CMLT), Creative Writing (CRWR)
General Requirements
- Statement of Purpose: A statement addressing the intended focus of your graduate studies and how your past educational experiences have prepared you for this course of study. If applicable, this statement would also be the place to address any unusual challenges that you may have faced during your academic career and/or the formative nature of any extracurricular activities (i.e. athletics, outreach activities, clubs, etc.) that may have had an impact on your intellectual development. (If you are applying to the PhD program but would like to be considered for the MA in the event that a PhD spot is unavailable, please also indicate that here.)
- Transcript(s)
- TOEFL/IELTS/PTE (international graduate students)
Program-Specific Requirements
- Letters of Recommendation (3)
- Academic CV
- Writing Sample: A single sample of critical writing of approximately 12-20 pages. While we encourage you to submit your best writing sample, we prefer a writing sample in your declared field of interest. The writing sample should include an updated works cited page to help us evaluate your critical and theoretical familiarity with a field, a period or a genre. (Uploaded to the Upload Requirements section of the application).
- In addition to fulfilling Graduate School requirements, applicants to the M.A. degree program should present a 3.5 GPA in English and 24 hours of upper-level English courses. Applicants to the Ph.D. degree program should present at least a 3.7 GPA and a B.A. degree, normally in English Language and Literature. All M.A. and Ph.D. applicants should submit a single critical writing sample of 12-20 pages as indicated on the application guidelines. We do not require the GRE for admission to our program. For best consideration, complete applications for all degree programs should be submitted by December 1. Applications are not accepted after December 1. The Admissions Committee will begin reviewing applications immediately. Admission is for the Fall semester only.
For more admissions information or to apply to the program, please visit our Graduate School website: www.gradschool.umd.edu/admissions
Application Deadlines
| Type of Applicant | Fall Deadline |
|---|---|
| Domestic Applicants | |
| US Citizens and Permanent Residents | December 1, 2023 |
| International Applicants | |
| F (student) or J (exchange visitor) visas; A,E,G,H,I and L visas and immigrants | December 1, 2023 |
RESOURCES AND LINKS:
Program Website: http://www.english.umd.edu
Application Process: https://gradschool.umd.edu/admissions
Resources for research in the College Park and Washington, D.C. area are unsurpassed. The university’s libraries hold over 2,000,000 volumes. In addition to the outstanding holdings of the Library of Congress, the area also offers the specialized resources of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Dumbarton Oaks, the National Archives, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Center for the Study of the Visual Arts among others
UMCP is a member of the Consortium of Institutions in the Washington area, which permits graduate students at College Park to enroll in courses at other universities for graduate credit at UMCP. Graduate students in English also may take courses for graduate credit at the Folger Institute, which runs a series of seminars by distinguished scholars each year.
| Last Name | First/Middle Name | Graduate Faculty Status | Academic Credentials | Positions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arnold | Elizabeth | Full Member | B.A. Oberlin College, 1981; M.A. University of Chicago, 1984; Ph.D. 1991; M.F.A. Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. | Professor, English Language and Literature Professor, Creative Writing |
| Auchard | John | Full Member | B.A. New York University, 1970; M.A. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1971; Ph.D. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1980. | Professor Emeritus, English Language and Literature |
| Auerbach | Jonathan D. | Full Member | B.A. University of California-Santa Cruz, 1976 M.A. Johns Hopkins University, 1978; Ph.D. 1984. | President Emeritus, English Language and Literature |
| Avilez | GerShun | Full Member | B.A. Hendrix College 2002, M.A. Temple University 2004, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2009 | Professor, English Language and Literature Graduate Director, English Language and Literature |
| Bailey | Amanda | Full Member | B.A., Oberlin College, 1988; M.A. Univ. of Michigan, 1992; Ph.D. 1998. | Chair, English Language and Literature Professor, English Language and Literature |
| Balachandran Orihuela | Sharada | Full Member | B.A. Mills College; Ph.D. Univ. of California, Davis. | Associate Professor, English Language and Literature Associate Professor, Comparative Literature |
| Bauer | Ralph R. | Full Member | B.A., University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, 1991; M.A., Michigan State University, 1993; Ph.D., 1997. | Associate Professor, English Language and Literature Associate Professor, Comparative Literature |
| Berlin | Adele | Full Member | B.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1964; Ph.D. 1976. | Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature |
| Bryer | Jackson R. | Full Member | B.A. Amherst College, 1959; M.A. Columbia University,1960; Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1965. | Professor Emeritus, English Language and Literature |
| Caramello | Charles A. | Full Member | B.A. Wesleyan University, 1970; M.A. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1973; Ph.D. 1978. | Professor, English Language and Literature Affiliate Professor, American Studies |
| Carretta | Vincent | Full Member | B.A. State University of New York-Binghamton, 1968; M.A. 1971; Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1977. | Professor Emeritus, English Language and Literature |
| Cartwright | Kent | Full Member | B.A., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1965; M.A., Case Western Reserve 1968; PhD., 1979. | Professor Emeritus, English Language and Literature |
| Chico | Tita | Full Member | A.B., Vassar College, 1991; M.A., New York University, 1994; Ph.D., 1998. | Professor, English Language and Literature Affiliate Professor, Women's Studies |
| Cohen | William A. | Full Member | B.A., Swarthmore College, 1985; Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1993. | Professor, English Language and Literature Affiliate Professor, Comparative Literature |
| Coleman | Linda K. | Full Member | A.B., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1973; M.A., 1973; Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1982. | Associate Professor, English Language and Literature Associate Professor, Neurosciences and Cognitive Science |
| Coles | Kimberly | Full Member | B.A., Columbia, University, 1994; M.A.,1996; M.Phil., Oxford University, 1998; D.Phil., 2003. | Associate Professor, English Language and Literature |
| Coletti | Theresa M. | Full Member | B.A.,University of Pittsburgh, 1971; M.A., University of Rochester, 1973; Ph.D.,University of Rochester, 1975. | Professor, English Language and Literature Affiliate Professor, Women's Studies |
| Collier | Michael R. | Full Member | B.A., Connecticut College, 1976; M.F.A.,University of Arizona, 1979. | Director, Creative Writing Professor, English Language and Literature Professor, Creative Writing |
| Collins | Merle | Full Member | B.A., University of the West Indies-Mona, Jamaica, 1972;M.A., Georgetown University, 1980; Ph.D.,London School of Economics & Political Science, 1990. | Professor, English Language and Literature Professor, Comparative Literature Affiliate Professor, Women's Studies |
| Donawerth | Jane L. | Full Member | B.A., Miami University-Oxford, 1969; M.A.,University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1970; Ph.D., 1975. | Professor, Comparative Literature Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature Affiliate Professor, American Studies |
| Enoch | Jessica | Full Member | B.A., University of Iowa, 1996; M.A., Pennsylvania State university, 1999; Ph.D., 2003. | Professor, English Language and Literature |
| Fahnestock | Jeanne D. | Full Member | B.A., University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, 1966; M.A., Indiana University-Bloomington, 1967; Ph.D., University of London, 1970. | Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature |
| Fleming | Julius | Full Member | B.A. Tougaloo College, 2009; A.M. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2011; PhD. 2014. | Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature |
| Fraistat | Neil R. | Full Member | B.A., University of Connecticut-Storrs, 1974; M.A.,University of Pennsylvania, 1976; Ph.D., 1979. | Professor, English Language and Literature |
| Fuentes | Gabrielle | Full Member | B.A., Brown University 2008, M.F.A. University of Colorado, Boulder, 2013, Ph.D. University of Georgia, 2017 | Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature |
| Gaycken | Oliver | Full Member | B.A., Princeton University, 1994; M.A., University of Chicago, 1996; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2005. | Associate Professor, English Language and Literature Associate Professor, Comparative Literature Graduate Director, Comparative Literature |
| Hamilton | Donna B. | Full Member | B.A., Saint Olaf College, 1963; Ph.D.,University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1968. | Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature |
| Infante | Chad | Full Member | B.A. CUNY 2011, MA Northwestern 2013, PhD Northwestern 2018 | Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature |
| Israel | Michael | Full Member | B.A., U.C. Berkeley, 1989 Ph.D., U.C. San Diego, 1998 | Associate Professor, English Language and Literature Associate Professor, Neurosciences and Cognitive Science |
| Kauffman | Linda | Full Member | B.A., University of California-Santa Barbara, 1971; Ph.D., 1978. | Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature |
| Kill | Melanie | Full Member | B.A., The Evergreen State College, 1999; M.A., University of Washington, 2003; Ph.D., 2008. | Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature |
| Kirschenbaum | Matthew G. | Full Member | B.A., SUNY Albany, 1992; M.A., University of Virginia, 1994; Ph.D., 1999. | Professor, English Language and Literature Affiliate Associate Professor, American Studies Affiliate Associate Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Affiliate Associate Professor, Information Management Affiliate Associate Professor, Information Studies Affiliate Associate Professor, Library and Information Science |
| Konstantinou | Lee | Full Member | B.A., Cornell Univ., 2000; M.A., Stanford Univ., 2008; Ph.D., 2009. | Associate Professor, English Language and Literature |
| Kraus | Kari Michaele | Full Member | B.A., Texas A&M University, 1991; M.A., Texas A&M University, 1995; Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2006. | Associate Professor, History and Library & Information Science Associate Professor, Information Management Associate Professor, Library and Information Science Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature Assistant Professor, Information Studies |
| Leinwand | Theodore B. | Full Member | B.A., Hamilton College, 1973; M.A.,Johns Hopkins University, 1978; Ph.D., 1980. | Professor Emeritus, English Language and Literature |
| Leonardi | Susan | Full Member | B.A.,Immaculata College, 1968; M.A., University of California-Davis, 1982; Ph.D., 1986. | Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature |
| Levine | Robert S. | Full Member | B.A., Columbia University, 1975; M.A.,Stanford University, 1977; Ph.D., 1981. | Distinguished University Professor, English Language and Literature Affiliate Professor, American Studies |
| Lindemann | Marilee | Full Member | B.A., Indiana University, 1981; M.A., Rutgers State University, 1983; Ph.D., 1991. | Associate Professor, English Language and Literature Affiliate Associate Professor, American Studies Affiliate Associate Professor, Women's Studies |
| Logan | Shirley W. | Full Member | B.A., Johnson C. Smith University, 1964; M.A.,University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1966; Ph.D., University of Maryland-College Park, 1988. | Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature |
| Mallios | Peter | Full Member | A.B., University of California-Berkeley; M.A., University of Chicago, 1992; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2000. | Associate Professor, English Language and Literature |
| Moser | Thomas Colborn, Jr. | Full Member | B.A., Harvard University, 1973 M.A., Yale University, 1979; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987. | Associate Professor, English Language and Literature |
| Norman | Howard | Full Member | B.A., Western Michigan University, 1972; M.A., Indiana University-Bloomington, 1976. | Professor, English Language and Literature Professor, Creative Writing |
| Nunes | Zita | Full Member | B.A., Brown University, 1983; M.A.,University of California-Berkeley, 1986; Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley 1994. | Associate Professor, English Language and Literature Associate Professor, Comparative Literature Affiliate Associate Professor, American Studies Affiliate Associate Professor, Women's Studies |
| Ontiveros | Randy | Full Member | B.A., Biola University, 1997; M.A. University of California, Irvine, 2001; PhD., 2006. | Associate Professor, English Language and Literature Associate Professor, Comparative Literature Affiliate Associate Professor, Women's Studies |
| Passannante | Gerard | Full Member | B.A., Yale University, 2000; PhD Princeton Univ. 2006. | Professor, English Language and Literature Professor, Comparative Literature |
| Pearson | Barry L. | Full Member | B.A., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1968; M.A.,Indiana University-Bloomington, 1970; Ph.D., Indiana University, 1977. | Professor, English Language and Literature Affiliate Professor, American Studies |
| Peterson | Carla L. | Full Member | B.A., Radcliffe College, 1965; Ph.D., Yale University, 1976. | Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature Professor Emerita, Comparative Literature |
| Ray | Sangeeta | Full Member | B.A., University of Calcutta,1980; M.A., 1983; M.A., Miami University, 1987; Ph.D., University of Washington, 1990. | Professor, English Language and Literature Professor, Comparative Literature Affiliate Professor, American Studies Affiliate Professor, Women's Studies |
| Richardson | Brian | Full Member | B.A., University of Washington, 1982; M.A.,1984; Ph.D., 1988. | Professor, English Language and Literature Professor, Comparative Literature |
| Robertson | Kellie | Full Member | B.A., Univ. of Virginia, 1990; M.A./M.Phil., Yale University, 1993; Ph.D., 1998. | Associate Chair, English Language and Literature Professor, English Language and Literature Professor, Comparative Literature |
| Rosenthal | Laura | Full Member | B.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1983; M.A. Northwestern University, 1985; Ph.D., 1990. | Professor, English Language and Literature Affiliate Professor, Women's Studies |
| Rudy | Jason | Full Member | B.A., Princeton University, 1997; PhD., Rutgers University, 2004. | Professor, English Language and Literature |
| Shelton | Cecilia | Full Member | B.A., Winston-Salem State University, 2005; M.A. North Carolina State University, 2007; Ph.D., East Carolina Univesity, 2019 | Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature |
| Simon | David | Full Member | BA Brown University 2004, PhD University of California - Berkeley 2012 | Associate Professor, English Language and Literature |
| Trudell | Scott | Full Member | B.A., Tufts University, 2002; M.A., Rutgers University, 2009; Ph.D., 2012. | Associate Professor, English Language and Literature |
| Valiavitcharska | Vessela V. | Full Member | B.A., Sofia University, Bulgaria, 1995; M.A., Chicago University, 1997; Ph.D. University of Texas, 2007. | Associate Professor, English Language and Literature Associate Professor, Comparative Literature |
| Walter | Christina | Full Member | CV: B.A. University of Kansas, 1997; M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001; Ph.D., 2008. | Associate Professor, English Language and Literature |
| Wang | Orrin | Full Member | B.A., Reed College, 1979; M.A.,University of Chicago, 1984; Ph.D., 1989. | Professor, English Language and Literature Professor, Comparative Literature Affiliate Professor, Women's Studies Affiliate Associate Professor, American Studies |
| Washington | Mary Helen | Full Member | B.A.,Notre Dame College, 1962; M.A., University of Detroit/Mercy, 1966; Ph.D.,1976. | Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature Affiliate Professor, American Studies |
| Weiner | Joshua | Full Member | B.A., Northwestern University, 1985; M.A., University of California-Berkeley, 1988; Ph.D.,1998. | Professor, English Language and Literature Professor, Creative Writing |
| Wible | Scott | Full Member | B.A., Duquesne University, 2000; M.A., Pennsylvania State University, 2002; Ph.D., 2006. | Associate Professor, English Language and Literature |
| Wilder | Sara | Full Member | B.A. University of California, Davis 2010, M.A. Ohio State University 2013, Ph.D. Ohio State University 2017 | Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature |
| Wong | Edlie | Full Member | B.A. University of California, Berkley, 1995; Ph.D., Univeristy of California, 2003. | Professor, English Language and Literature |
| Wyatt | David M. | Full Member | B.A., Yale University, 1970 Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1975. | Professor, English Language and Literature |