The Department of English at the University of Houston offers the following degree programs:

• M.A. Program in English and American Literature
• M.F.A. in Creative Writing
• Ph.D. Programs in
  • English and American Literature
    • Concentration in Rhetoric, Composition, and Pedagogy
  • Literature and Creative Writing

Curriculum

Our curriculum explores the intellectual opportunities of diverse cultures while embracing the old and the new:

• Early literatures and cultures--Medieval, Renaissance, Restoration
• Eighteenth-Century, Nineteenth-Century and Modern British literatures
• Literatures of the Americas, including American, Comparative, Mexican-American, African American, and Post-Colonial
• Regional studies, environmental literatures, folklore
• Gay and lesbian literature and gender studies
• Rhetoric, Composition, and Pedagogy
• Applied Linguistics, Creative Writing, Critical Theory and film
• Rich interdisciplinary study opportunities in a broad range of departments and programs, including Mexican American Studies, African American Studies, American Cultures Program, Gender and Women's Studies, and the Schools of Theatre, Art, and Music.
• Translation Studies
• Transnational, post-colonial and Empire Studies

Resources

We offer the resources of a major urban university focused on student opportunities:

• A community within a large urban setting with small seminars and accessible faculty
• A distinguished faculty with extensive publications in leading academic presses, including Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Illinois
• Professors who teach: over one-third of the department's faculty have received University Teaching Excellence Awards
• Colloquia on professional development helps students to make informed career decisions. Students have received many national and local awards, and achieved an outstanding placement record
• An active graduate student association that publishes an online literary journal, Plaza, and holds an annual literary conference
• Financial opportunities include university awards, tuition fellowships, teaching assistantships, and research assistantships with department faculty, Arte Publico Press, or Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage
  • Nomination for Competitive Fellowships
• Our graduate students have held staff and teaching positions in the Center for Teaching Excellence, the Writing Center, and Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts

Resources for Teaching Fellows (TFs)

A new website, titled Resources for TFs, presents information for TAs and TFs specific to the Department of English.

Advisor

Ms. Julie Kofford
Room 205, Roy Cullen Building
E-mail: jkofford@uh.edu
Phone: 713-743-2939