Welcome to our Community of Scholars! We hope that this website will welcome and inform prospective and new members of our community, and continue to engage and update our current students, faculty, and staff.
We are proud to be among the nation’s highest-ranked doctoral programs and to be the top public doctoral program in the Northeast, according to the National Research Council rankings.
We value our sense of community because we believe that a convergence of expert, caring, and interesting scholars at every level, from undergraduates to emeriti faculty, will promote the holistic development of our graduate students. We stress professional development in scholarship, teaching, and career preparation. Our approximately sixty faculty members provide intellectual excitement as they share their expertise and enthusiasm through their seminars and their supervision of independent work and dissertations. In addition, we stress the development of future college teachers through a seminar on pedagogy and through the mentored teaching of courses from freshman composition through upper-level literature courses. Our graduate students prepare to enter the profession by taking courses in advanced research methods and professional development skills. We also offer an array of relevant and necessary workshops on topics such as publishing and grant writing. Our English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) provides professional and work/life support as well as fun. Our community of scholars is productive and successful as indicated by our consistently high placement rate of PhDs in tenure-track jobs despite a tough job market.
Please explore and enjoy this website and engage with us in our Community of Scholars.
Charles Mahoney, Director of Graduate Studies
GRADUATE PROGRAM TEAM
Director of Graduate Studies
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Charles Mahoney Office:Austin 231 Phone: (860) 486-2282 Email: charles.mahoney@uconn.edu |
Associate Director of Graduate Studies
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Victoria Ford Smith Office: Austin 122 Phone: (860) 486-3959 Email: victoria.f.smith@uconn.edu |
Administrative Services Specialist
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Mary Udal Office: Austin 234 Phone: (860) 486-2329 Email: mary.udal@uconn.edu |
Graduate Program News
May, 2017. UCHI Fellowship Awards for AY 17/18 Announced
Sarah Berry “The Politics of Voice in Twentieth-Century Verse Drama” (Mary Burke, advisor)
Laura Wright, “Prizing Difference: PEN Awards and Multiculturalist Politics in American Fiction.” (Cathy Schlund-Vials, advisor)
Folger 2015 Seminar Members Announced
Congratulations to both George Moore (English) and Jeremy De’Angelo (Medieval Studies), both of whom have been accepted into the Folger Library’s spring 2015 seminar, “The Scale of Catastrophe: Ecology and Transition, Medieval to Modern.”
Graduate Student receives National Award
October 2013. Miller Oberman, PhD candidate in poetry and poetics, is the first student ever to receive one of the country’s top awards for poetry translation, Poetry magazine’s John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize. The award honors the single best translation published in the magazine during the year. Miller’s translation, “Old English Rune Poem,” was published in the magazine in June. Previous awardees include Pulitzer Prize-winner Rita Dove, National Book Critics’ Circle Award-winner Clare Cavenaugh, and National Book Award-winner Marilyn Hacker. Congratulations, Miller!