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Program Overview
The Department
Tufts University offers a highly selective and
flexible program in English literature, American
literature, and Anglophone World literatures,
leading to the Ph.D. Graduate students have
a great deal of choice in determining their
course of study. The Department's faculty has
expertise in a wide range of historical periods,
authors, literary and aesthetic movements, and
critical discourses. Special interests of the
faculty include: interdisciplinary approaches
to cultural studies; African-American, Marxist,
feminist, lesbian and gay perspectives on literature;
multiculturalism; and various aspects of post-structural
theory.
There are approximately twenty full-time
faculty members in the English Department
and the Department admits ten students
each year to the graduate program. The scale
of the program encourages extensive interaction
between faculty and students in an atmosphere
that is both rigorous and supportive. Students
have ample opportunity to hone teaching, writing,
and presentation skills in a collaborative environment.
The Department hopes and expects that most students
who are admitted will proceed beyond the M.A.
degree to Ph.D. study. Although students may
receive an M.A. after their first year, Tufts
does not have a program designed to grant a
terminal M.A. degree.
Classes at Tufts are relatively small; graduate
seminars range in size between five and eighteen
students. Recent seminars have included:
Fall 2007:
Becoming Urban in Eighteenth-Century
London
The Victorian Novel
Troilus and Criseyde
Spring 2007:
Post-structuralism and the (Re)Turn to
"Culture" (Edelman)
Forms of Desire in Early Modern England
(Haber)
Nineteenth-Century American Poetry in
Public (Jackson)
Fall 2006:
Modernism and Psychoanalysis (Rosenthal)
Novel Theories (Roy)
Race and American Literature (Ammons)
Spring 2006:
Home is Where the Hatred Is (Sharpe)
The Wordsworth Circle (Hofkosh)
The Literary Symptom: Language, Culture,
Lacan (Edelman)
Fall 2005:
The Sentimental Moment: Clarissa, Tristram
Shandy, & Maria (Flynn)
Troilus and Criseyde (Fyler)
The Long 1950s (Litvak)
Spring 2005:
Austen & Shelley (Hofkosh)
Postcolonialism: In Theory and Fiction (Roy)
Fall 2004:
Race and American Literature (Ammons)
Forms of Desire in Early Modern England
(Haber)
The Victorian Novel (Litvak)
Spring 2004:
Vertiginous Reading: Theory and Film (Edelman)
Mapping London (Flynn)
American Puritanism (Rosenmeier)
Students who wish to pursue interdisciplinary
research may take approved courses in other
Tufts departments. In addition, students may
enroll in courses through a consortium of area
graduate schools, including such institutions
as Boston College, Boston University, and Brandeis
University. Tufts students are also encouraged
to take courses offered by the Graduate Consortium
in Women's Studies at MIT.
Contact Information
Department of English
210 East Hall
617-627-3459
gradenglish@tufts.edu
Professor Judith Haber
Director of Graduate Studies, 303 East
Hall
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