English


7195 White Hall, Helen C
600 N Park St
Madison WI 53706
Phone: (608) 263-3751; Fax: (608) 263-3709
E-mail: english@wisc.edu

Departmental Website: www.english.wisc.edu
(For more information, prospective students should visit the departmental website.)
Degree(s): MA, PHD

Options: Literature, Composition and Rhetoric, or Language and Linguistics. Please also see information under Creative Writing.
See Also: also see Creative Writing

Department Admissions Requirements and other Catalog information:

Faculty listings, admission and degree requirements, course descriptions.
http://www.wisc.edu/grad/catalog/letsci/english.html

Deadlines and Test Requirements:

Term New Admission Re-Entries  
Fall Yes Yes
Spring No Yes
Summer No No
Note: Please see Major in Creative Writing in regard to MFA Program.

The GRE Literature in English Subject Test is ONLY required for applicants to our Literary Studies program, Composition & Rhetoric Bridge program, and Afro-American Studies Bridge program. Applicants to our Applied English Linguistics program, Composition & Rhetoric program, and English Language & Linguistics program need to take the general GRE only.

The application deadline for the MA in Applied English Linguistics and the PhD in English Language and Linguistics is January 6.

Keywords:

African-American literature; allegory; Anglo-Saxon literature; American literature; applied linguistic; Asian-American literature; American Studies, Anglophone; Autobiography; British literature; Colonial; composition studies; critical theory; cultural studies; discourse; drama; Early Modern; Early Republic; Edwardian; Eighteenth century literature; English language; English linguistics; ESL; feminist literary theory; fiction; gender studies; genre studies; humor; literacy; literary theory; metaphor; Middle English language; Middle English literature; modernism; narrative; Native American literature; novel; Old English language; Oral theory; phonology; poetry; Postcolonial; Postmodernist; Puritan; Religious literature; Renaissance; Restoration; rhetoric; romanticism; seventeenth century literature; SLA; stylistics; syntax; TESOL; Transcendentalists; variation; Victorian literature; women's writing

Apply on the Web!

After reading departmental admissions requirements, proceed to the online application.
http://www.english.wisc.edu/admissions/index.html

Program Profile:

Current enrollment, student funding, degree and admissions statistics.
http://www.wisc.edu/grad/education/admissprofiles/405.html

Last Updated 03-MAR-09