Write your own future by pursuing a graduate degree in English or Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.
We offer coursework leading to a Master of Arts or a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English with concentrations in American, British or Anglophone literatures; creative writing (poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction); and rhetoric and composition. UNT is among a select group of universities — and the only one in the North Texas region — offering a creative writing concentration at the doctoral level.
A Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing is also available.
You'll work closely with award-winning faculty members who have diverse backgrounds and interests. Their works have been published in the flagship journals in their fields and subfields (PMLA, College English and Speculum), as well as leading literary journals, including The Paris Review, Best American Poetry and Best American Spiritual Writing.
Our noted creative writing program features winners of the National Book Critics Circle Award, BBC International Short Story Award and Bernard F. Conners Prize for poetry. The program annually gives a $10,000 Rilke Prize for mid-career poets of noted excellence.
Students can collaborate with faculty members outside the classroom as research assistants, teaching fellows and in editorial positions with the three national literary and scholarly journals that we house: American Literary Review, Studies in the Novel and Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies. You'll have opportunities to attend and participate in a variety of speakers' series such as:
Our membership in the Newberry Library Consortium allows you to undertake archival research or attend its conferences. If you're a creative writing student, American Literary Review sponsors weekly readings at coffee houses and involves students in its editorial work and annual contests. The Graduate Students in English Association organizes an annual conference that attracts presenters from around the country.
You'll need to complete the admission requirements for the Toulouse Graduate School® and a specific set of department requirements. Graduate school and department requirements are outlined in our catalog. The application deadline for fall admission is Jan. 1.
The requirements vary based on the degree you're pursuing. The M.A. in English requires 30 credit hours with a thesis or non-thesis option. With the M.A. in Creative Writing, all students complete 33 credit hours of coursework. Specific requirements are available in the catalog.
Literature students will need to complete 54 credit hours and Creative Writing students 57 credit hours beyond the master's degree. In addition, you'll need to select a faculty advisor and degree focus within the first 27 credit hours. An additional requirement is completing a qualifying exam. Specific requirements are available in the catalog.
Laila Amine, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Indiana University. African American and African Diaspora literature and theory.
Deborah Needleman Armintor, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Rice University. 18th-century British literature; gender/sexuality studies.
Bruce Bond, Regents Professor; Ph.D., University of Denver. Poetry.
Angela Calacaterra, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of North Carolina. Early American literature and culture.
Gabriel Cervantes, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Princeton University. 18th-century British and American literature; law and literature.
Jeffrey Doty, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Iowa. Early Modern literature and culture.
James Duban, Professor; Ph.D., Cornell University. Early American literature; 19th-century American literature.
Jehanne Dubrow, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Nebraska. Poetry.
Ian Finseth, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of North Carolina. 19th-century American literature; African American literature; ecocriticism.
Jacqueline Foertsch, Professor; Ph.D., Tulane University. Post-1945 American literature and culture.
Bonnie Friedman, Associate Professor; M.F.A., University of Iowa. Creative nonfiction.
Nora Gilbert, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California. 19th-century British literature; early Hollywood film; gender studies; law and literature.
Stephanie Hawkins, Associate Professor; Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo. 19th- and 20th-century American literature and culture; American modernism; science and literature.
Matthew Heard, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of California-Riverside. Composition studies; pedagogy; rhetorical theory.
David Holdeman, Professor and Department Chair; Ph.D., University of Michigan. 20th-century Irish literature and culture; modern British and American poetry and drama; scholarly editing.
Kyle Jensen, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Illinois State University. Rhetoric and composition.
Corey Marks, Professor; Ph.D., University of Houston. Poetry.
Ian McGuire, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Virginia. Fiction.
Miroslav Penkov, Assistant Professor; M.F.A., University of Arkansas. Fiction.
John Peters, Professor; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. British modernism; Joseph Conrad; Victorian literature; American modernism.
Alexander Pettit, Professor; Ph.D., University of Washington. Restoration and 18th-century literature; textual studies; modern and contemporary drama.
Dahlia Porter, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. British literature of the Romantic Period; literature and science; book history and material text studies; women's studies; children's literature.
Masood Ashraf Raja, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Florida State University. Postcolonial literature and theory.
Barbara Rodman, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Denver. Fiction.
Javier Rodriguez, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Harvard University. Mexican American literature and culture; race and globalization; border studies.
Nicole Smith, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Rutgers University. Late medieval literature and culture; Chaucer.
John Tait, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Missouri. Fiction.
Jill Talbot, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Texas Tech University. Nonfiction.
Robert Upchurch, Associate Professor; Ph.D., City University of New York. Early medieval literature and culture.
Jacqueline Vanhoutte, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Washington. Renaissance drama; Shakespeare.
Priscilla Ybarra, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Rice University. Contemporary Chicana/o literature and ecocriticism.
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