The Programs
Master of Arts in English
The MA in English is a 30-33 hour degree with five options: literature , creative writing , rhetoric and composition , teaching English as a second language , and teaching. The degree prepares students to pursue a Ph.D. or to teach in a community or junior college. For those students who have an undergraduate teaching certificate, the MA in English is certified for Rank II and Rank I in the secondary schools. There is a thesis option in all but the creative writing option, in which a thesis is required. Near the end of course work, students take an oral examination with a committee of three faculty members.
The Master of Arts in Education with a minor in English
The minor , designed for students who already possess a teaching certificate, includes 12-15 hours of English classes.
Graduate Assistantships
The English Department has a number of assistantships each year. Assistants tutor in the Writing Center and attend mentoring activities, such as observing a class, the first year. The second year, assistants teach two classes of their own. We have three special first year assistantships: the Willson E. Wood Fellow conducts research for a faculty member; the Robert Penn Warren Fellow assists with the annual conference and helps edit rWp: An Annual of Robert Penn Warren Studies; and the Summer Writing Project Fellow assists Dr. John Hagaman. Stipends at present are $9,400 the first year and $10,200 the second, with in-state tuition for out-of-state students. Assistants are given an office, phone, and computer access as well.
Graduate Faculty in English
- Wes Berry (Ph.D., University of Mississippi):
- Lou-Ann Crouther (Ph.D., Indiana): American Literature, African-American Literature
- Lloyd Davies (Ph.D., Duke): Romanticism, Literary Theory
- Lesa Dill (Ph.D., Georgia): Linguistics
- Jane Fife (Ph.D., University of Louisville): Composition and Rhetoric, Director of Writing Center
- James Flynn (Ph.D., Auburn): Middle English Literature, Chaucer
- Alison Ganze (Ph.D., University of Oregon):
- Katherine S. Green (Ph.D., Georgia State): Eighteenth Century, British Novel, Women's Writing, Feminist Literary Theory
- John Hagaman (D.A., Carnegie-Mellon): Composition/Rhetoric; Director of Writing Project; Editor, Kentucky English Bulletin
- Joe Marshall Hardin (Ph.D., University of South Florida):
- Ted Hovet (Ph.D., Duke): American Studies, Film
- Sandy Hughes (Ph.D., Georgia): American Literature
- Tom Hunley (Ph.D., Florida State): Creative Writing (Poetry), Composition and Rhetoric
- Angela Jones (Ph.D., University of Kansas):
- Jane I. Olmsted (Ph.D., Minnesota): Women's Writing, Women's Studies, Multicultural Studies; Director of Women's Studies Program
- Elizabeth Oakes (Ph.D., Vanderbilt): Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, American Women Poets; Graduate Advisor
- Alex Poole (Ph.D., Oklahoma State): TESL, Linguistics
- Kelly Reames (Ph.D., University of North Carolina): American Literature
- L. Dale Rigby (Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia): Creative Non-Fiction, Composition
- Karen Schneider (Ph.D., Indiana): Twentieth-Century British and American Literature, Film, Women's Literature, Speculative Fiction
- Lee Spears (Ph.D., Kentucky): Professional Writing, Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Composition
- Elizabeth Weston (Ph.D., University of North Carolina):
- Elizabeth Winkler (Ph.D., Indiana):
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Optional Retirees
- Charmaine Allmon-Mosby (Ph.D., North Carolina): Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature, Southern Literature
- Joseph Glaser (Ph.D., Texas): Renaissance Literature; Director of Composition
- Ronald D. Eckard (Ph.D., Ball State): English as a Second Language
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