Location:

Winston-Salem, United States

Program Type:

Full Degree

Degree Level:

Master

Specialty:

English

Program Overview

Program Description:

Wake Forest is widely recognized as belonging among the finest universities in America, and the English Department has contributed to this success by consistently being one of the most active research departments on campus. Consisting of over thirty-five members, our faculty is large and active, publishing within and beyond their specialties. Our offerings cover a broad selection of courses in English and American literature, in fields ranging from early medieval culture to literary theory, international approaches to Romanticism, science and literature, film and literature, and African-American, Ethnic American, and Postcolonial literatures. With small classes and an informal professional relationship between students and faculty, we provide many occasions for intellectual exchange. The department hosts a regular series of graduate colloquia as well as lectures by distinguished scholars from other universities, as well as readings by nationally and internationally recognized novelists and poets, sponsored by the department and by the Wake Forest University Press, the major publisher of contemporary Irish poetry in the United States.

Our graduates who desire to continue beyond the MA have consistently gained acceptance to major doctoral programs. Graduates have also pursued careers in publishing, teaching, academic administration, public service and at foundations such as the Carnegie Foundation.

Additional Program Information

Accreditation:

Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada Commission on Accreditation