PhD English at University of Delaware

The PhD in English is a five-year, straight-to-PhD programme with pedagogical training, teaching apprenticeships, literary research training and opportunities to publish, present and do archival research. Strengths include African American literature, print and material culture, global and postcolonial literature, gender and sexuality studies, film studies, speculative fiction, post-1945 American literature, early modern literature, environmental humanities and writing studies.

Faculty: College of Arts and Sciences  |  Department: Department of English  |  Duration: Five years (fully funded); students typically earn the MA at the end of the second year  |  Intake: Fall only; funding applications due January 1  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Newark, DE, United States

What you will study

First year: apprenticeship in ENGL110 (Seminar in Composition) and ENGL688 (Composition Theory and the Teaching of Writing) plus literature or advanced undergraduate English coursework; later years carry a two-course teaching load. Areas include theory, film studies, material culture, composition and rhetoric, environmental humanities, Black cultural studies and digital humanities.

Career pathways

Scholars and professors of English and public intellectuals, in and outside academia.

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