Graduate Studies in English
We welcome your interest in pursuing graduate work in English at Middle Tennessee State University. Ours is a lively, dynamic program. We offer both an M.A. and a Ph.D. Our curriculum allows students to explore traditional areas of literary study (Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, etc.) as well as topics related to popular culture, film, gender, and folklore. We also offer possibilities for concentrated studies in rhetoric, pedagogy, and composition theory.
We in the English Department of MTSU make every effort to provide our graduate students with a congenial atmosphere conducive to the advancement of their learning and personal development. Students are taken seriously as individuals, and are encouraged to think and create freely within a structure that provides support from peers, guidance from faculty, resources for research, challenging goals, and rigorous standards. Graduate study in English is primarily an engagement in the deep and intense study of literature and language, theory, and writing, undertaken for the special pleasure in knowledge and understanding of the world and its semiotic systems that such studies bring. It also provides preparation and training for careers within and without the academy.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee is located just thirty miles south of Nashville in one of the fastest growing areas of the Mid-South region, near the site of the historic Civil War Battle of Stones River. An antebellum courthouse stands in its town square. Shopping malls proliferate on the outskirts of town. Whatever can't be found close at hand is often available in Nashville, home of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, the Frist Museum, Vanderbilt University, the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Tennessee Titans, the Predators, as well as many bookstores, coffee shops, art galleries, and movie theaters.
Awards
In addition to providing full tuition to graduate assistants, MTSU rewards excellence by offering the Albert and Ethel Carver Smith Award ($2,000). In addition, the English Department offers the following awards to qualified graduate students:
- the Peck Award ($1,500)
- the Frazier Writing Award ($200 for first; $100 for second)
- the William R. Wolfe Award (given for the three best essays of the year by a graduate student; prizes vary)
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