Graduate Programs

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

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
Applied Linguistics, Creative Writing, Critical Theory, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy
Rich interdisciplinary study opportunities in a broad range of departments and programs, including Mexican American Studies, African American Studies, American Cultures Program, Women's Studies, and the Schools of Theatre, Art, and Music

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 and a graduate placement officer help 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
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

Our programs bring acclaimed writers to the campus and send student writers into community classrooms:

Margarett Root Brown Houston Reading Series 1999-2000 participants include Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, and Derek Walcott
Martha Gano Houston Distinguished Lecture Series, which has brought Michael Berube, bell hooks, Gayatri Spivak, and Catharine Stimpson
Common Ground, a nationally acclaimed NEH initiative
Writers-in-the-Schools
Language and Culture Center, where over 400 students from around the world study English as a second language
Computer Writing Lab and Center

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