Program Overview

English Ph.D.

Program Overview

The UNT English graduate program is designed for students who wish to build a professional career as creative writers, educators, or academics. With distinguished scholars in every major period of American and British literature and nationally renowned writers in every genre, the English Department supports a broad range of graduate research and creative work.

Program Details

• Degree Type: Doctoral Degree
• Major: English
• Format: On Campus
• Estimated Time to Complete: 3-4 years
• Credit Hours: 54 (with master's) or 72 (with bachelor's)

Program Highlights

• Students have opportunities to pursue editorial positions with the department's national literary journal, American Literary Review, and with the local student-run journal, North Texas Review.
• Students have published their work in nationally and internationally recognized journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, SEL: Studies in English Literature, and others.
• Students work closely with award-winning faculty members who have diverse backgrounds and interests and whose works have been published in flagship journals in their fields and subfields.
• Students have opportunities to attend and participate in a variety of speakers' series, including the American Studies Colloquium, the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies Group, the Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium, and the Visiting Writers Series.
• The Graduate Students in English Association organizes an annual conference that attracts presenters from around the country.
• The department sponsors a Visiting Writer Series that brings distinguished writers to campus to give readings and meet with students in Q&A sessions.

Marketable Skills

• Reason rigorously, subtly, and independently
• Analyze minutely sources and narratives
• Identify and address interpretative complexity
• Develop and contribute new knowledge
• Convey knowledge in self-designed courses

Career Opportunities

Many recent Ph.D. graduates have gone on to tenure-track positions at other institutions all over the country, including Texas Women's University (Texas), Radford University (Virginia), St. Catherine University (Minnesota), Valparaiso University (Indiana), SUNY-Potsdam (New York), and Brigham Young University (Utah).

Courses

• Survey of Critical Theory (3 hrs)
• Seminar in British Literature and Culture, 1780 to the Present (3 hrs)
• Seminar in American Literature and Culture, 1865 to the Present (3 hrs)
• Seminar in the Novel (3 hrs)
• Topics in Cultural Studies (3 hrs)
• Scholarly and Critical Writing (3 hrs)