English Language and Literature

Join our community of critical thinkers and creative writers to reimagine worlds across styles, genres, and mediums, engaging our ever-changing world with this English Language and Literature PhD programme from University of Tulsa.

Encouraging discussion and close collaborations between expert faculty and peers in our seminar-style classes, we offer interdisciplinary programmes specializing in Anglophone literary and cultural traditions, with connections to film and media studies, philosophy, history, women’s and sexuality studies, eco-studies, medical, humanities, and other fields.

A diverse range of innovative courses on everything from graphic literature and gaming to ecocriticism and queer studies allow you the opportunity to focus on different genres and styles. You will design a curriculum best reflecting your interests, join our scholarly journals for editorial experience, and enjoy mentorships, internships, workshops, and guest lectures by prominent authors to gain invaluable exposure to the professional and artistic world.

Key Facts

The  English Language and Literature English Language and Literature  PhD programme from University of Tulsa University of Tulsa  has strengths in British, Irish, and American literature from the early modern period to today, led by faculty with particular focus on modernism, popular culture, gender and sexuality studies, and digital humanities. McFarlin Library supports the programme with more than 3 million books, periodicals, and documents – including a world-renowned collection of 20th-century literary manuscripts, a massive trove of material from the First World War, and rare books of poetry and fiction of the 19th century. The department publishes three award-winning journals of record – James Joyce Quarterly, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, and Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry – and co-produces (with Brown University) the Modernist Journals Project.

Specific clusters of study that carry the advantage of faculty depth and the potential for original research are: 

• Victorian and Modern British and Irish literature

• American studies, cultural and gender/sexuality studies

• African American literature

• Indigenous literature, and women’s literature

• Early Modern

• Restoration

• Eighteenth-Century British and Transatlantic Literature