Degrees Offered
MFA, PhD
Genres
Fiction, Poetry, CNF, Drama
Residency type
Full
Program length
45 semester hours (MFA), 78 semester hours (PhD)
Financial Aid
Taships and/or fellowships are extended to the majority of students in the Graduate English program
Teaching opportunities
The majority of students in the Graduate English Program receive support in the form of a teaching assistantship. Teaching assistants are provided with a stipend and a waiver for most of their tuition. Experienced TAs are often invited to teach during the summer term for an additional stipend.
Graduates
- D. M. Aderibigbe PhD (Poetry)
- Kaveh Akbar PhD (Poetry) 2018
- Gabrielle Bellot MFA (Fiction) 2012, PhD (Fiction) 2017
- David Bottoms PhD 1982
- Katie Burgess PhD (Fiction)
- Kara Candito PhD
- Dorothy Chan PhD (Poetry)
- George Makana Clark MA (Fiction) 1992, PhD (Fiction) 1996
- Thomas Cooper PhD
- Katie Cortese PhD (Fiction) 2013
- Marian Crotty PhD (Fiction) 2013
- Jaclyn Dwyer PhD
- Patricia Foster PhD (CNF) 1993
- Jesse Goolsby PhD 2016
- Barbara Hamby MA 1981
- Rebecca Hazelton PhD (Poetry) 2010
- Micah Dean Hicks PhD (Fiction) 2015
- Erin Hoover PhD 2016
- Nahal Suzanne Jamir PhD
- Tim Keppel PhD (Fiction) 1996
- Kate Kimball PhD (Fiction)
- Jie Liu MFA (Fiction) 2014, PhD (Fiction) 2018
- Pat MacEnulty PhD (Fiction) 1995
- Brandi Martin MFA (Poetry) 2017
- Colleen Mayo MFA (Fiction)
- Jen McClanaghan PhD 2009
- P. J. Murphy PhD (Fiction)
- Jacob Newberry PhD 2013
- Lisa Nikolidakis PhD 2011
- Iheoma Nwachukwu PhD (Fiction) 2018
- Dustin Pearson PhD (Poetry)
- Brenda Peynado MFA (Fiction) 2011
- Misha Rai PhD 2017
- Catherine Reid PhD
- Heather Sellers PhD (Fiction) 1992
- Sandra Simonds PhD 2010
- Erin Slaughter PhD (Poetry) 2021
- Cody Smith PhD (Poetry) 2021
- Jane Springer PhD (Poetry) 2008
- Leon Stokesbury PhD 1984
- David Thacker PhD (Poetry) 2018
- Seth Brady Tucker PhD (Fiction/Poetry) 2012
- Holly Wilson PhD (Fiction) 2011
- Josephine Yu PhD (Poetry) 2012
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