Master of Arts in English - Literature

UMass Boston's English MA Program is one of the largest liberal arts graduate programs at the university. All of our students and faculty engage with the imaginative worlds that texts createworlds created and shared by literary authors, professional writers, critical readers, and reflective thinkers. We offer a flexible program of study with four areas of concentration: literature, composition, pedagogy, and creative writing. Students can create an integrated program of study that includes courses from one or all of these areas.

We are proud to offer an English MA Program that is:

Innovative: You can participate in cutting-edge courses (such as our hands-on rare books seminar at Boston-area archives), unique extracurriculars (such as our Literary Theory Reading Group), and experiential assistantships (such as our graduate teaching and research assistantships).
Relevant & Rooted: You can take seminars on topics that capture both the latest trends and long-standing traditions in English Studies. Current course topics include young adult literature, book history, the graphic novel, memoir writing, digital rhetoric, the Harlem Renaissance, multimodal composition, ecocriticism, Arthurian legend, science fiction, and Shakespearean drama, among others.
Challenging: Your coursework trains you in advanced reading, writing, research, and teaching methods. Our seminars, workshops, research, and teaching experiences prepare you to undertake a self-defined final project.

Curriculum - Literature Concentration
Complete ten courses including one core course, one pre-1850 course, three literature courses, four electives, and one final exercise course.