University of Georgia - MFA Creative Writing Posted on April 23rd
The UGA English Department offers M.A., M.A.T., M.F.A., and Ph.D. degrees.
As a large program, we are able to offer a wide variety of courses, ranging from the traditional to the innovative. Courses in literary periods, major authors, and theoretical movements are supplemented by specialty seminars based on current faculty research interests. Recent specialty graduate seminars include “Literature, Media and Information in the Nineteenth Century,” “Modernism and the Aristocracy,” “What’s Living and What’s Dead in the Frankfurt School,” “Revisionary Historiography: Rewriting the History of Rhetoric,” “Global Feminisms,” “The Southern Renaissance and After,” “The Short Story Cycle,” “Urban Modernity,” “Contemporary Irish Poetry,” “Victorian Femininity, Nationhood, and the Black Atlantic,” “Museums, Modernisms, Memory,” “Race, Gender, and Identity in Early Modern Britain,” and “Films About the South.”
Such a variety of course offerings signals both our recognition of intellectual and disciplinary change and our abiding commitment to traditional literary history. Course offerings arise from faculty research interests, and because we have very few course requirements -particularly at the doctoral level- our program encourages students to follow the example of an intellectually engaged faculty in designing their own programs of study.
Recognizing that the burden of professional development is shared by graduate students and faculty alike, we work closely with our graduate students to help them develop professionally as scholars and teachers. Acknowledging that research, publication, and undergraduate teaching are never distinct practices, we provide opportunities to connect research with teaching, to present scholarly work to a range of audiences, and to become part of a larger intellectual community beyond the English Department.
