Master of Arts
Developing critical awareness
The Master of Arts (MA) program develops scholars with a critical and comprehensive awareness of English studies. While offering specialization in one of various areas of strength in the department, the program requires a breadth requirement through course work and thereby grounds students鈥� interests in a wide and flexible understanding of English studies.
Summer 2025 GRADUATE COURSES
ENGL 844: At the Crossroads: Indigenous and Black Writing in Canada | Instructor: S. McCall
FALL 2025 GRADUATE COURSES
ENGL 820: At the Crossroads: Studies in Print Culture and Theory | Instructor: M. Levy
ENGL 834: Studies in Twentieth Century Literatures: A New Field, An Emerging Canon: Indigenous Literatures over the Twentieth Century in Canada | Instructor: D. Reder
ENGL 850: Studies in Globalization, Literature, and Culture: Intertidal Intimacies: Ecology, Empire, and Extraction | Instructor: J. Leow
ENGL 860: Studies in Writing and Rhetoric: Introduction to Rhetorical Theory and Practice | Instructor: S. Zwagerman
SPRING 2026 GRADUATE COURSES
ENGL 832: Studies in Eighteenth-Century: Songs, Spectacles and Circuses in the Long Eighteenth Century | Instructor: L. Davis
ENGL 852: Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Literature: Masculinities in Caribbean Literatures and Cultures | Instructor: C. Bogle
ENGL 854: Studies in Poetics: Fred Wah and 20th Century Poetics | Instructor: J. Derksen
SUMMER 2026 GRADUATE COURSES
ENGL 821: Studies in Manuscript, Print and Media Culture: The Archive in Theory and Practice | Instructor: M. Levy
ENGL 840: Studies in American Literature Contemporary African American Poetry | Instructor: J. Smith
FALL 2026 GRADUATE COURSES
ENGL 810: New Directions in Theory: Reading Our Contemporary Moment | Instructor: C. Lesjak
ENGL 820: Introduction to Print Culture, Theory, Practice (print culture) | Instructor: M. Levy
ENGL 830: Medieval Antifascisms/The Antifa Middle Ages | Instructors: D. Coley & M. Hussey
ENGL 834: Poetry and the Present: The Poetics of Temporality | Instructor: J. Derksen
SPRING 2027 GRADUATE COURSES
ENGL 811: Autofiction and Autotheory | Instructor: C. Burnham
ENGL 832: Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century (print culture) | Instructor: D. Solomon
ENGL 870: Introduction to the Theory, History, and Practice of Research Creation (rc) | Instructor: C. Bogle
SUMMER 2027 GRADUATE COURSES
ENGL 835: War and Medicine: Crisis, Trauma, and Solidarity | Instructor: J. Leow
ENGL 844: Indigenous Life Writing Over Three Centuries in Lands Claimed by Canada | Instructor: D. Reder