University of Missouri

Course Description

• The English Department at the University of Missouri is committed to the study of English language and literature in all of its historical, cultural, and theoretical facets
• Over 35 full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty members and over seventy graduate students enrolled in MA, MA/PhD, and PhD programs with emphases in all major literary periods, including Medieval, Early Modern, Restoration and 18th Century, Romantic, Victorian, American to 1914, Modern and Contemporary, and African Diaspora Studies, make up the English Department
• Its PhD in Creative Writing program is one of the nation's oldest, and its faculty includes renowned poets, novelists, and creative nonfiction authors
• There are also particular emphasis areas in Critical Theory and Language & Linguistics (MA only)
• The staff at this institution has a notable record of scholarship, having received substantial research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, the Huntington Library, and other organizations