MA in English

Unofficial transcripts should show all coursework taken to date and, if applicable, the title of the degree earned and the date the degree was conferred.

Copies or unofficial transcripts of undergraduate and, if appropriate, graduate work (degree transcripts only, please) can be uploaded electronically.

Letters of recommendation from three people familiar with your academic background and intellectual abilities; applicants provide their names and email addresses. Referees will be contacted automatically via e-mail with requests to provide recommendations.

Personal Statement

A statement of purpose of no more than 500 words, uploaded electronically. The statement should clarify the applicant’s qualifications for and likely interests in graduate study.

TOEFL/IELTS

An academic writing sample (maximum 5,000 words, including footnotes and bibliography) that should demonstrate your ability in any area of literary, cultural, and/or media studies, including but not limited to film and television studies, folklore, literature and the environment/environmental justice, any era of British, American, and/or Anglophone literary studies, comics studies, digital humanities, disability studies, postcolonial/decolonial studies, queer and/or gender studies, Indigenous literatures, critical race studies, poetry and poetics, or rhetoric and composition.