Prospective Student Information
Our application deadline is December 15. Learn how to apply.
Reasons to Apply
- Access to an outstanding, professionally active, intellectually diverse faculty.
- An ecumenical spirit.
- Cross-disciplinary breadth of training.
- Varied teaching experience for graduate students.
- A supportive departmental community.
- Terrific resources in the surrounding city.
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2009-10 Enrollment Profile
This department is home to multiple programs granting advanced degrees in Composition and Rhetoric, Creative Writing, Linguistics, and Literature.
This year’s incoming graduate student cohort is a lively group representing the United States and several points around the globe: California to New England, Yemen to Poland, Korea to Taiwan. Student numbers entering in the various degree programs are:
- Creative Writing MFA: 6
- English Language and Linguistics PhD: 1
- Literary Studies MA (First Stage PhD): 13
- Literary Studies MA-Comp/Rhet Bridge PhD: 1
- Literary Studies PhD: 7
- Composition and Rhetoric PhD: 4
- Applied English Linguistics: 6
The total number of graduate students currently enrolled in the Department of English is just over 200.
Announcements
Department of English
7195 Helen C. White
600 N. Park St.
Madison, WI 53706
608-263-3761
fax: 608-263-3709