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Graduate Programs

The Michigan Department of English Language and Literature, which awarded its first graduate degree in 1886, has a proud tradition of leadership in scholarship and teaching. With award-winning faculty, the Department now offers three PhD programs, English Language & Literature, English & Women's and Gender Studies, and English & Education, and the Helen Zell Writer's MFA Program, providing a distinctive array of choices for applicants and a rich cultural community for our students. Please read through this section for particulars on each of the graduate degrees offered by the Department.

Graduate Offices (3187 AH)

graduate.english@umich.edu

Meg Sweeney, Graduate Program Director

Peter Ho Davies, Director MFA Program in Creative Writing 

Ellannee Rajewsky, Graduate Program Manager

Julie Cadman-Kim, Program Manager, Zell Writers' Program

Senia Vasquez, Graduate Program Administrative Assistant