Graduate Studies in Literature

The literature division offers a range of courses in British, American and world literature from the earliest periods to the present day. Courses in literary criticism and theory educate students in orthodox and postmodern modes of analysis, and various special topics courses offer students the opportunity to study literature and culture across conventional boundaries of period and discipline.

The literature division prides itself not only on the quality of its teaching, but also on its international scholarly reputation. Professors routinely publish their work in top academic journals and, increasingly, in monographs and editions published by university presses. The department sponsors one literary journal, Studies in the Novel, and two on-going critical editions, The Works of Tobias Smollett and the Selected Works of Eliza Haywood, as well as the reprint-series, British Ideas and Issues, 1660-1820.

Students may choose to focus in literature at both the master's and the doctoral level.

Link to American Literature Faculty
Link to British Literature Faculty

Link to Courses in American Literature
Link to Courses in British Literature