Literature (English MA, PhD)
About
USF English Literature Faculty are award-winning scholars and teachers whose work is recognized nationally and internationally. Literature faculty have received awards and fellowships, influential editorial appointments, and leadership roles in professional organizations, while having their work appear in leading journals and university presses.
- The PhD in English with a concentration in literature is designed to produce teacher-scholars
who have a good general knowledge of critical theory, literature, and composition,
as well as a specialized knowledge in their field of concentration.
- The MA in English with a concentration in literature develops literary, critical, and creative knowledge, preparing candidates for a variety of professional careers and/or further graduate study.
Areas of study
American Literature: Early American and nineteenth-century literature, African American and civil rights literature, Asian American, Southern and Florida literatures, women’s writing, labor and working-class studies, environmental humanities, American modernism, visual culture, film studies, and digital humanities.
British Literature: Medieval and early modern literature, Shakespeare, Milton, Renaissance drama, Restoration
and eighteenth-century literature, Victorian studies, literary adaptation, empire
studies, women writers, modernism, and the history of the English language.
World Literature: Global Anglophone and postcolonial literatures, comparative and world literature,
Indigenous studies, refugee and migration studies, Irish, Spanish, French, and Russian
literatures, modernism, censorship studies, transnational literature, and global book
history.
Degree Requirements
Please Note: Departmental graduate funding is primarily directed toward PhD and MFA students; funding for MA students is extremely limited and never guaranteed.