Master of Arts
The Master of Arts (MA) program develops scholars with a critical and comprehensive awareness of English studies. While offering specialization in one of various areas of strength in the department, the program requires a breadth requirement through course work and thereby grounds students’ interests in a wide and flexible understanding of English studies.
FALL 2024 GRADUATE COURSES
ENGL 811: Marxism and Psychoanalysis | Instructor: C. Burnham
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ENGL 820: Theoretical Approaches to Print Culture | Instructor: M. Everton
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ENGL 832: Troubling Comedy in Eighteenth-century England | Instructor: D. Solomon
*Print Culture designated
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ENGL 853: Caribbean Literatures in Transition, 1950-1970 | Instructor: C. Bogle
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SPRING 2025 GRADUATE COURSES
ENGL 811: Mimesis | Instructor: J.D. Fleming
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ENGL 830: Trauma and the Fourteenth Century | Instructor: D. Coley
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ENGL 870: Hope is a Place: Climate Future, Colonial Pasts | Instructor: M. Linley
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Summer 2025 GRADUATE COURSES
ENGL 844: At the Crossroads: Indigenous and Black Writing in Canada | Instructor: S. McCall
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FALL 2025 GRADUATE COURSES
ENGL 820: At the Crossroads: Studies in Print Culture and Theory | Instructor: M. Levy
ENGL 834: Studies in Twentieth Century Literatures: A New Field, An Emerging Canon: Indigenous Literatures over the Twentieth Century in Canada | Instructor: D. Reder
ENGL 850: Studies in Globalization, Literature, and Culture: Intertidal Intimacies: Ecology, Empire, and Extraction | Instructor: J. Leow
ENGL 860: Studies in Writing and Rhetoric: Introduction to Rhetorical Theory and Practice | Instructor: S. Zwagerman
SPRING 2026 GRADUATE COURSES
ENGL 832: Studies in Eighteenth-Century: Songs, Spectacles and Circuses in the Long Eighteenth Century | Instructor: L. Davis
ENGL 852: Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Literature: Masculinities in Caribbean Literatures and Cultures | Instructor: C. Bogle
ENGL 854: Studies in Poetics: Fred Wah and 20th Century Poetics | Instructor: J. Derksen
SPRING 2026 GRADUATE COURSES
ENGL 821: Studies in Manuscript, Print and Media Culture: The Archive in Thoery and Practice | Instructor: M. Levy
ENGL 840: Studies in Ameriican Literature Contemporary African American Poetry | Instructor: J. Smith