DEGREES OFFERED

•M.A.inEnglishConcentrations:

•LanguageRhetoric,and CompositionStudies

•LiteraryStudies

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Department of EnglishTheMasterofArtsinEnglishfocusesontheinterconnectednessofwriting,teaching,andliterarystudies.Attheheartoftheprogramisaconcernfortheintegratedinterestsofstudentsandteachersinallbranchesofthefield.Teachers,scholars,andwritersintheprogramgainabetterunderstandingoftheirownpracticesbyseeingtheextenttowhicheachwriterisalsoaliterarycritic,eachteacherisalsoawriterandreaderofliterature,andallcriticsandreadersareteachersandwriters.Theprogramisdesignedtoextendanddeepentheintellectualrigorofcustomaryapproachestoliteraturebyexaminingissuestheseapproachesoftenleaveunaddressed,suchasthehistoryandinstitutionalizationofthediscipline;therelationshipbetweentheoryandthepracticesofwriting,teachingandtextualstudies;andtheprocessesbywhichknowledgeinthefieldofEnglishhasbeenandisconstructed.Theprogramrespondstochangingperspectivesinthehumanitiesandex-pandstheprofessionaloptionsofitsgraduatestudentsthroughabroadlyconceivedcourseofstudyandanintegratedcurriculumprovidinginstructionintheareasofliterarycriticism,rhetoricandcompositionstudies,andliteraryhistory.Theprogramalsoallowsstudentsflexibilitytodesignpartoftheirprograminconsultationwiththeirgraduateadvisor.

PROGRAMREQUIREMENTS

TheMasterofArtsdegreerequirestheminimumcompletionof30coursecredits.StudentsselectoneoftwooptionsfortheMasterofArtsdegreeinEnglish.Thefirstoptioninvolves24hoursofcourseworkand6hoursofprofessionalpaper,thelatter21hoursofcourseworkand10hoursofthesis.Theprogramalsooffersconcentrationsinlanguage,rhetoric,andpedagogyorliterarystudies.StudentsareexpectedtohavecompletedtheequivalentofabaccalaureatedegreeinEnglish.StudentswithundergraduatedegreesotherthanEnglishareencouragedtoapply;however,theymayberequiredtotakeadditionalEnglishcoursesasaconditionoftheiracceptance.

DepartmentAddress:DepartmentofEnglish2-176WilsonHallP.O.Box172300Bozeman,MT59717-2300Phone:406-994-3768Fax:406-994-2110Email:dept@english.montana.eduWeb:www1.english.montana.edu/

D E P A R T M E N T OF E N G L I S H

FINANCIALASSISTANCE

Graduatestudentsmayapplyfordepartmentalteachingassistantships,whichareawardedonacompetitivebasis.Toapplyforanassistantship,discussyourinterestinteachinginthepersonalessayyouwillsubmitaspartofyourapplicationpacket.

ADMISSION

UniversitystandardsforadmissionwithfullstandingtotheDivisionofGraduateEducationinclude: ∙3.0gradepointaverage(A=4.0)andofficialtranscriptsforall undergraduatecoursework

Additionally,theDepartmentofEnglishrequires: ∙Threelettersofrecommendationfrompeoplewhocancommentonyour potentialforsuccessinagraduateprograminEnglish

∙Apersonalessayinwhichyoudiscussyourreasonsforpursuingthe MasterofArtsinEnglish ∙10-15pagewritingsample ∙Optional--OfficialGraduateRecordExam(GRE)GeneralTestscores

DeadlineforadmissionandconsiderationforateachingassistantshipisJanuary31st.ThefinaldeadlinesforadmissiononlyareJuly1(fallsemester)andNovember1(springsemester).DeadlinesforinternationalstudentsareMay15(fallsemesterandSeptember15(springsemester).

FACULTY

DEPARTMENTCHAIR PhilipGaines

PROFESSORS DavidAgruss-Victorian literature, popular culture gender and sexuality studies, queer theory

RobertBennett–Post-World War II American culture, American popular music, New Western Studies, the Beat Generation, critical theories of space

KirkBranch-Composition, rhetorical theory, literacy theory, pedagogy

DougDowns-Writing studies, research pedagogy, reading, multimodal literacies

PhilipGaines-Linguistics, discourse analysis, composition

LindaKarell-Western American literature, authorship studies

SusanKollin–20th and 21st-century American literature, western American literatureandfilm,environmentalhumanities,transnationalAmericanStudies

MarvinLansverk-Eighteenth-century British literature

MichelleMiley–Writing Center Theory, Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Discipline, sociocultural theory, teacher research

GretchenMinton-English Renaissance, Shakespeare, drama, Christian late antiquity

GwendolynMorgan–Anglo-SaxonandMedievalLiteratureandLanguages,popularculture

RobertPetrone-English education, sociocultural literacy and learning, (youth) cultural studies

KathleenRyan–Feminist rhetorics and rhetoric, composition theory and pedagogy

AmyThomas- Nineteenth-century American literature, history of the book

AllisonWynhoffOlsen–Classroomdiscourseanalysis,argumentativewriting, adolescents’ school experiences, the “humanizing” of English language arts pedagogy

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