English PhD
The Doctor of Philosophy in English with emphases on writing, teaching, and criticism is a professional degree designed primarily for those planning on or already engaged in careers as teachers and writers in four-year colleges and universities. Focusing attention less on bodies of knowledge than on the making of knowledge and on the questions that arise out of the movement between theory and practice, this program prepares individuals for positions in which particularly strong credentials in rhetoric, poetics, pedagogy, and theory are desirable. Flexible enough to be adaptable to the individual student's needs and interests, the Ph.D. program nevertheless requires that all students develop competence in the history of English studies, the teaching of writing and literature, and the interrelations among rhetoric, writing of various kinds, and literary scholarship.
Degree Level: PhD
Department: English
School or College: College of Arts and Sciences
Required Credentials: Transcripts, 3 Letters of recommendation, GRE, Critical Writing Sample, Statement of Goals
Application Deadline for Fall Admission and Assistantship Consideration:
January 15
Application Deadline for Fall Admission without Assistantship Consideration:
January 15
Application Deadline for Spring Admission and Assistantship Consideration:
Not available
Application Deadline for Spring Admission without Assistantship Consideration:
Not available
Application Deadline for Summer Admission and Assistantship Consideration:
Not available
Application Deadline for Summer Admission without Assistantship Consideration:
Not available
Special Notes: Applicants who apply for a funded assistantship position along with doctoral admission will be granted admission only if a funded position is available. Any student who would consider enrolling without assistantship funding--that is enrolling as a self-funded student--should indicate this willingness on their Assistantship application and in the Statement of Purpose. We will consider such students for funded positions first, and will extend an offer with funding if available. Only after all funded assistantship positions have been filled will we offer admission on a self-funded basis.
You need to upload your writing sample with your online application at time of submission. You cannot append the application after initial submission.
Tracks: Literature, Modernity, and the Contemporary; Writing Practices: Poetics, Rhetorics, Technologies; Cultural, Transcultural, and Global Studies; Theoretical Construct
Grad Bulletin URL:
http://www.albany.edu/graduatebulletin/english_phd_writing_teaching_criticism.htm
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