Areas of Specialization - Department of English

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Areas of Specialization

Our faculty’s areas of specialization are:

African American Literature and Language
American Literature and Culture
Book History and Textual Studies
British Literatures in English, 18th to 20th Centuries
Contemporary Diasporic Literatures in English
Creative Writing

Digital and Media Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Ethnicity, Race, and Identity Studies
Rhetoric and Composition
Theory and Critical Studies
Visual Studies

English Department faculty also direct and/or participate in many interdisciplinary research centers at Penn State:

The Center for American Literary Studies
The Center for Black Digital Research
The Digital Culture + Media Initiative
The Global Asias Initiative

The Center for Democratic Deliberation
The Digital English Studio
The Migration Studies Project

We do not offer a Ph.D. specialization in creative writing, although M.A. and Ph.D. students may petition to take a creative writing course. We do offer an integrated B.A./M.A. degree for Penn State undergraduates specializing in creative writing.

English Ph.D. students may earn a dual-title Ph.D. degree in partnership with one of four programs:

The Department of African American Studies
The Department of Asian Studies
The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The Visual Studies program