Graduate
Overview
Welcome!
USF English is a vibrant intellectual community, with approximately 100 graduate students and a dynamic graduate faculty of internationally recognized and award-winning scholars and teachers who are committed to mentoring and supporting student success.
We offer degree programs across three areas:
- Literary Studies,
- Creative Writing, and
- Writing & Rhetoric.
Our program is large enough to offer a rich and wide-ranging variety of scholarly and creative opportunities and close-knit enough to foster meaningful connections and community. You can learn more about our faculty and programs by clicking on the brochure below.
We invite you to explore our brochure to learn more about our programs, faculty, graduate community, and the many opportunities available to our students.
Detailed information about each of our degree programs can be found at the links below.
Degree Programs
The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing is a graduate-level major that emphasizes the craft of writing and concentrates on the student’s original work in the genres of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics.
The Literature programs seek to produce teacher-scholars who have a sound general knowledge of British and American literature and a specialized knowledge of their fields of concentration.
M.A. and Ph.D. in Writing & Rhetoric
The Writing & Rhetoric programs seek to equip teacher-scholars with both a robust familiarity with critical, literary, and rhetorical theory and with the pedagogical experiences requisite for quality instruction. Students will specialize their studies toward a particular field of concentration.
The 4 offered graduate certificates provide graduate-level specialization in comparative literary studies, creative writing, professional and technical communication, or digital humanities to both current graduate students and non-degree seeking students.
Graduate Program Contacts
Thomas Chaplin, Graduate Academic Program Specialist