Welcome to UT’s graduate studies in English. Our graduate program offers both the MA and the PhD in English. The MA program has concentrations in literature and in writing, and the PhD program has concentrations in literature, criticism, and textual studies; rhetoric, writing, and linguistics; and English with creative dissertation.
We are excited about the research and creative activity happening at UT, and invite you to join our vibrant and growing intellectual community.
UT graduate students have access to a nationally and internationally recognized graduate faculty as well as a superb research library with special collections in British and American literary and cultural history. We offer students opportunities to collaborate with faculty on scholarly journals and advanced research; teach and design undergraduate courses; and participate in our graduate student organization and English community activities. Students in our program regularly present their work at professional conferences and publish in refereed journals. Our graduates teach in colleges and universities across the country. The program rewards excellence by offering financial support for both MA and PhD candidates, including travel funds for conferences and research.
Application Deadlines
- December 15—PhD applications
- January 15—MA applications
Contact Information
Thomas F. Haddox, Director
306 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996
Telephone: (865) 974-6933
Email: hinkle@utk.edu
Professor Misty Anderson is featured in the April 2013 issue of Higher Ground, the College of Arts and Sciences’ monthly magazine. ”What’s So Funny about Methodists?” discusses the serendipitous nature of the research that lead to Anderson’s most recent book, Imagining [...]
The University of Tennessee’s final Writers in the Library event of the academic year will feature readings by student winners of the John C. Hodges Graduate Writing Awards. Readings from the winning works will take place in the Hodges Library [...]
Drawing on tourist literature, travelogues, and local-color fiction about the South, Bill Hardwig tracks the ways in which the nation’s leading interdisciplinary periodicals, especially the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, and the Century, translated and broadcast the predominant narratives about the late-nineteenth-century [...]
The Chancellor’s Honors Banquet is held each spring to recognize students, faculty, staff, and friends of the University of Tennessee for their extraordinary achievements. This year’s banquet was held April 8th at the University Center and honored the following members [...]
On Monday, 4/15, at 7pm, in the Hodges Library Auditorium, Dr. Marilyn Kallet will will read at UT’s Writers in the Library in celebration of the launch of her new book, The Love That Moves Me, a collection of love [...]
Adam Prince will read at UT’s Writers in the Library, on Monday, 4/8, at 7pm, in the John C. Hodges Library auditorium. Prince will also hold a Q&A session for all interested students, from 3-4 pm that same day, in [...]
Several members of the Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics division presented their scholarship at the 2013 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference theme was “The Public Work of Composition.” Lisa King (Assistant Professor) delivered [...]
Andrew Eichel will be presenting his paper “Marginal Manifestoes: Medieval Texts and the Translator’s Note” at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, June 25-28, as part of a conference entitled “The Middle Ages in the Modern World.” Travel funds from [...]
Andrew Eichel will be presenting his paper “Marginal Manifestoes: Medieval Texts and the Translator’s Note” at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, June 25-28, as part of a conference entitled “The Middle Ages in the Modern World.” Travel funds from [...]
Andrew P. Dillon has poetry forthcoming in Connotation Press (summer 2013), Beecher’s Magazine (summer 2013) and in the inaugural issue of China Grove (August 2013). He also attended Binghamton University’s Writing By Degrees: Biennial Conference on Writing as a poetry panelist in October 2012.
