PhD in English
The Ph.D.Program in English offers one of the largest selections of seminars nationally, reflecting both areas of current interest and more traditional historical approaches. CUNY’s consortial arrangement allows the program to draw faculty from all colleges in the system, and thus to provide not only a broad range of coverage but also depth of field. Each semester, seminars cover periods from the Middle Ages to the present. And, because the program has more than one nationally recognized specialist in each area, students are able to consider each area from various perspectives while becoming fluent in different methodologies. Particular faculty strengths include theory and poetics, feminist theory and women’s writing, gay/lesbian/queer theory, medieval and early modern literature and culture, Victorian literature and culture, American literature, (auto)biography, African American literature and culture, composition and rhetoric, postcolonial literature and theory, and twentieth-century studies.
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