Graduate Admissions
Our tradition in the Graduate Program in English at YorkU has always been to challenge the idea of tradition itself, to seek out the limits of established ideas, and to attend to new ones. We are proud of our reputation for adventurous, interdisciplinary, and innovative approaches to literature. Trail-blazing into the new, creating valuable knowledge, and assessing significance in every field of literary history, criticism and theory requires truly comprehensive knowledge, skilful research, and thought-provoking writing. Our program is carefully and supportively designed to help students develop into the next generation of important scholars.
Our faculty and courses represent a compelling range of theoretical, historical and critical approaches to literature across the historical sweep of English-language literatures in all genres from their very beginnings to today’s global spectrum of voices and expressive forms. Study with prize-winning graduate faculty in American, British, Canadian, Postcolonial, Diasporic, and World Literatures. Study in depth the periods of Medieval and Renaissance, 18th-century and Romantics, Victorianism and Modernism, the 20 th -century and the truly contemporary with an array of disciplinary theories that will energize and change how you read and think.
The Graduate Program in English at York University is pleased to offer Canada’s first Graduate Diploma in World Literature , which can be pursued in concert with your MA or PhD degree.
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Degrees Offered
Program length (full-time), program component(s).
- Course work only
- OR Major research paper
Minimum Required GPA
Deadline - fall (all applicants), english proficiency requirement.
Duolingo scores are accepted for Summer 2021, Fall 2021 and Winter 2022 entry only.
- Comprehensive examination(s)
- AND Dissertation
Number of Recommendation(s)
- 3 recommendation(s)
Other Requirements
- Statement of interest (500 words)
- Sample of scholarly writing (max. 3,750 words)
Ways to connect with the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Program Supports
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Contact the graduate program assistant: yorku.ca/gradstudies/program-contacts/
Have an admission related question? Contact the Graduate Admissions Team
By phone: 416-872-9675
By email: [email protected]
Upcoming graduate webinars/in-person events for Future Students: futurestudents.yorku.ca/events/graduate
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Our Programs
Studying here is about pursuing relevant issues and creative ideas through engagement with the material, your professors and peers, collaboratively and supportively. Our community of scholars works within and across programs to engage interdisciplinarity much more deeply and significantly. Strong disciplinary knowledge and dynamic interdisciplinary acumen work to provide the critical thinking, speaking, writing, and researching skills necessary for leadership both inside and outside of the Academy.
Diploma in Creative Writing
Diploma in World Literature
The Graduate Program in English at York is an exciting environment to pursue innovative, socially engaging, career-ready education. Contact our Graduate Program Assistant to learn more.
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PhD. There are more than 45 faculty members in the Program with diverse interests and specializations. Course work falls broadly into the following fields in which students can focus their studies and specialize in practically any period, style, and genre from the earliest literature in English to contemporary texts: American. British. Canadian.
Apply for the PhD in English and Related Literature (Distance Learning) Students embarking on a PhD programme are initially enrolled provisionally for that qualification. Confirmation of PhD registration is dependent upon the submission of a satisfactory proposal that meets the standards required for the degree, usually in the second year of study.
The size of our graduate community, as well as the intellectual diversity of our graduate students, makes York a very stimulating environment in which to pursue a research degree in English. We play a major part in six interdisciplinary research centres: Centre for Medieval Studies; Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
At York, we have have one of the largest and most diverse PhD communities in the UK, with over 80 registered research students. Skip to content Accessibility statement. Search york.ac.uk. Search. ... University of York York YO10 5DD United Kingdom +44 (0) 1904 320 000
The Graduate Program in English has an exchange program with Mainz University in Germany, and York has an agreement with every university in France for "coutelle" doctorates. York is also an institutional affiliate of the Harvard Institute of World Literature, which meets for a month every summer in cities across the globe.
The graduate program in English at York University has helped me develop intellectually, professionally, and personally. Through coursework and seminar discussions, my thinking and writing are continually improving, while teaching and interacting with the larger York community have introduced me to the norms of a professional workplace.
English. Our tradition in the Graduate Program in English at YorkU has always been to challenge the idea of tradition itself, to seek out the limits of established ideas, and to attend to new ones. We are proud of our reputation for adventurous, interdisciplinary, and innovative approaches to literature. Trail-blazing into the new, creating ...
The English PhD from University of York is available on a full-time or part-time basis. The diversity of our staff's research interests means that we are well-positioned to supervise research in any field of literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, including literature in languages other than English and literary works in ...
Our Programs. Studying here is about pursuing relevant issues and creative ideas through engagement with the material, your professors and peers, collaboratively and supportively. Our community of scholars works within and across programs to engage interdisciplinarity much more deeply and significantly. Strong disciplinary knowledge and dynamic ...
York, United Kingdom. York is a high-performing Russell Group university and one of the world's premier institutions for inspirational and life-changing research. Its focus on teaching and research excellence has resulted in consistently high rankings in the UK and a first-class reputation across the globe. #146 Ranking. 56 PhDs. 19 Scholarships.