Graduate classes are small and opportunities for multi-disciplinary and independent study are available. Our faculty are dedicated teachers, active researchers, theorists, poets and novelists, with areas of expertise in British, American and World Literature, cultural studies, feminism, comparative literature, ESL, folklore, theory, film, linguistics, creative writing, and composition.

Our students come to UT to improve their professional credentials in teaching, publishing, and journalism, and also for personal satisfaction and development. We have a very good record in placing our MA graduates in PhD programs.

The department awards the Shapiro Senior Scholarship to our students, who are also eligible for humanities scholarships.

The Aureole Press is run out of the department?s typography lab, and English department faculty are widely published in literary criticism, rhetoric and composition studies, linguistics, fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.