PhD English at University of Alabama

Programme overview

The Department offers PhDs in English, including a specialized area of focus in Literature, Renaissance Studies, and Composition and Rhetoric (CRES). Department faculty mentor students at all stages of their graduate experience, from coursework to teaching, from examinations to the writing of doctoral dissertations. Graduate students in our Department not only have the opportunity to learn in an engaging environment but also to teach with steady training and mentorship.

Faculty: J. Frank Barefield Jr. College of Arts and Sciences | Department: English | Duration: 42 credit hours | Study mode: full-time | Location: Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

What you will study

The degree requires 42 credit hours. Courses in the listed curriculum include EN 620 Descriptive Linguistics (or other).

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Application information

Entry requirements

In addition to the minimum Graduate School admission requirements, to be considered for regular admission an application must include: For the English PhD program, successful applicants normally have a GPA of 3.5 or better in master’s or equivalent graduate work. Statement of Purpose (the first line should mention the desired Specialty Area in the English Department). Tip: the Statement of Purpose describes your main research interests. Effective statements avoid generalizations and developmental narratives. Instead, they identify where you are with your work now and where you want to go. It can help to address the relationship between your writing sample and your research interests; and to connect your work to the faculty in the department. 500-750 words is usually right; just don’t go over 1000. Writing Sample: For the English PhD Program, this should consist of 20 pages of critical writing. The writing sample is usually a single essay written for an upper-level English course or an

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Entry terms: Fall, Spring and Summer (the admissions page lists Spring, and Summer/Fall priority deadlines).

Apply through the official page: https://graduate.ua.edu/

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