The Department of English

Doctor of Philosophy


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PhD: Sample Exam Questions

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

Also see PhD Reading Lists


For more information, contact:
Ms. Alyson Everhart
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