The Department of English

Doctor of Philosophy


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Doctoral Specializations: Exam Procedures


Areas of Specialization


Old and Middle English
Renaissance/Early Modern English
Restoration and Eighteenth Century British
Nineteenth-Century British
Post 1900 British and Anglophone Literature
Postcolonial Literatures and Theory
American Literature Before 1900
American Literature After 1900
African American Literature
Rhetoric and Composition
Literary Theory

Procedures on the Exams

Also see Sample PhD Questions


For more information, contact:
Ms. Alyson Everhart
Administrative Assistant to Graduate Studies in English
3137 MHRA
(336) 334-5311