Mtsu english graduate program

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Topics vary with the professor assigned to the course. Prerequisite: Permission of the director of graduate studies. Individually supervised reading and research in an area of English.

Students may apply no more than two directed reading courses toward their degree requirements. Designed to give students a definite critical knowledge of the major literary works of Restoration and eighteenth-century England, Course may focus on either drama, poetry, or prose or a combination. Covers the major lyrical and narrative poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge as well as select prose, e.

Covers the major lyrical, narrative, and dramatic poetry of the three principal younger generation Romantics as well as select prose, e. Intellectual backgrounds of modern British literature; major novelists: Forster, Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence; major poets: Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Thomas; selected minor writers. The novel as a literary genre may be approached from a variety of perspectives, including generic, historical, theoretical, or single-author approaches.

An in-depth study of the African American literary tradition with emphasis on significant authors, genres, texts, and contexts.

Themes, theories, movements, and types of literature produced in the American South with particular emphasis on selected authors and texts. Surveys literature associated with the discovery and colonization of America from the first recorded European encounters with the New World until just after the founding of the United States.

Surveys literature associated with the Romantic period in American literary history, from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the 's.

Writing across a variety of genres including essays, short stories, poetry, novels, and slave narratives. Authors of this era answered the calls that had been made since the nation was founded for an artistically sophisticated and distinctive national literature. Covers the development of American literature from roughly the Civil War to World War I, including the rise of realism, naturalism, regionalism, and local color.

Considers historical and cultural contexts. Covers the rise of American modernism, including experiments in fiction, drama, and verse; considers the phenomenon of expatriation, the radical visions of the depression decade, and the literary experience of the two world wars. Intellectual backgrounds of contemporary literature; significant developments in fiction, nonfictional prose, poetry, and drama.

An in-depth study of one, two, or three American writers. A candidate-designed course of readings constructed in consultation with faculty in preparation for writing a dissertation.

The cognate option in the Ph. The cognate option is limited to a minimum of six 6 hours and a maximum of nine 9 hours. Courses taken in other departments beyond the nine hours for the cognate may not apply toward the Ph. Likewise courses taken outside the department by students who have not declared a cognate or received permission of the graduate advisor or program director will not count as credits toward the degree.

Selection of a research problem, review of pertinent literature, collection and analysis of data, and composition of dissertation. Once enrolled, student should register for at least one credit hour of doctoral research each semester until completion. Graduate teaching assistants are required to take ENGL in their first year of the program. Candidate must file an approved Advisory Committee form listing the members of the candidate's doctoral committee with the Graduate Office and College of Graduate Studies upon successful completion of the written and oral preliminary examination.

Mohammed Albakry Professor Dr. Maria K. Bachman Professor Dr. Claudia Barnett Professor Dr. Gaylord Brewer Professor Dr. Eric Detweiler Assistant Professor Dr.

Ellen R. Donovan Professor Dr. Kevin Joseph Donovan Professor Dr. Laura Jo Dubek Professor Dr. Patricia Gaitely Professor Dr. Elyce Rae Helford Professor Dr. Allen Hibbard Professor Dr. Martha P. Hixon Professor Dr. Marion Doreen Hollings Professor Dr. Mark Allan Jackson Professor Dr. Ronald Kates Professor Dr. Justyna Kostkowska Professor Dr. Jid Lee Associate Professor Dr. William Levine Professor Dr.

McDaniel Professor Dr. Julie A. Myatt Professor Dr. Michael J. Neth Professor Dr. Carl Ostrowski Professor Dr. Philip Edward Phillips Professor Dr. Alicia Mischa Renfroe Professor Dr. Stephen E. Severn Department Chair Dr. Christopher Weedman Assistant Professor Dr. Apply Now! College of Basic and Applied Sciences. College of Behavioral and Health Sciences.

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