Recognizing the complex discipline that "English" has become, our M.A. and Ph.D. programs seek to ground students broadly in literary and filmic periods, genres, and major authors while also attending closely to developments in the discipline and in the academy at large. Both programs emphasize close collaboration and mentoring between individual students and faculty. Small pro-seminars, covering broad fields of study, and advanced seminars, covering specialized topics or issues, help students develop breadth and depth of knowledge while offering them intensive intellectual engagement with members of the faculty. Extensive annual programming brings graduate students together in formal and informal settings with distinguished faculty in both English and Creative Writing. We have a diverse and distinguished graduate faculty in early modern studies, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British studies, American studies, critical theory, and film and screen studies. In the last decade they have published books and articles on everything from poetry, novels, films, and plays to translations, hip hop, TV crime dramas, and video games. These publications examine a wide variety of topics and issues, including aesthetics, diasporic literatures, discourses of embodiment and feeling, discourses of political economy, documentary film and witnessing, domestic fiction and the welfare state, historical fiction and historiography, liberalism and material culture, literature and identity, living history museums and reenacting, Marxist theory, musicals and music history, narratives of criminality and piracy, narrative temporality in new media, postmodernism, publicly engaged humanistic scholarship, reception and book history, and Shakespeare. Many of these publications also engage with histories, politics, and theories of class, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality, colonialism, empire, and globalization.

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