English Language & Literature Grad Programs - The University of Tulsa
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English Language & Literature Grad Programs

The English Language and Literature graduate program at The University of Tulsa is internationally renowned for its outstanding quality, close mentorship, and high job placement rates.

The program has strengths in British, Irish, and American literature from the early modern period to today, led by faculty with particular focus on modernism, popular culture, gender and sexuality studies, and digital humanities. McFarlin Library supports the program with more than 3 million books, periodicals, and documents – including a world-renowned collection of 20th-century literary manuscripts, a massive trove of material from the First World War, and rare books of poetry and fiction of the 19th century. The department publishes three award-winning journals of record – James Joyce Quarterly, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, and Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry – and co-produces (with Brown University) the Modernist Journals Project.

Top 100 Private Research Institution

5:1 Student-Faculty Ratio

30+ Books Authored by Faculty

100% Graduate Placement Rate

Professional Opportunities

  • Students build their skill sets through a variety of fellowship assignments: teaching, interning with McFarlin Library’s Special Collections, working for one of our literary journals, working our digital humanities projects, and serving as administrators in the university writing program.
  • Recent graduates have gone on to full-time teaching positions at academic institutions or pursued nonacademic careers in the business and nonprofit sectors.

Funding Opportunities

  • Assistantships that cover tuition and offer a stipend are available. Students receiving assistantships teach, work in our writing center or for McFarlin Special Collections, intern for one of our literary journals, or perform administrative tasks.
  • The Ben Graf Henneke Graduate Research Fellowship (full tuition coverage, monthly stipend, and funded study abroad opportunities for M.A. students), the Foster Brooks Parriott Fellowship and the Dissertation Completion Fellowship (up to 21 hours of tuition coverage and monthly stipend for doctoral students in their final year) are also available.

Admission Information

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  • Must hold baccalaureate degree from an accredited university
  • 18 hours of undergraduate literature and language
  • 10- to 20-page writing sample
  • Strong GRE general test scores required
  • Applications are due Jan. 15
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Learn more about the department

The UTulsa Department of English and Creative Writing excels in teaching and research, specializing in Anglophone literary traditions with interdisciplinary connections.

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