English

The English Department at Tufts University provides a supportive, collaborative environment for rigorous graduate study and professional development. Faculty and students work together to ensure all students achieve their goals as thinkers and scholars. The collective expertise of our distinguished faculty covers a wide range of historical periods, authors, literary and aesthetic movements, and critical discourses. Special interests among our faculty include black cultural studies; Marxist, feminist, and queer perspectives on literature and culture; postcolonial and multicultural studies; visual and material culture; poststructuralist theory; affect theory; science studies; and environmental humanities. 

After undergoing supervised training to help them master the necessary skills, our students gain valuable teaching experience by designing and offering their own courses as Graduate Instructors in Tufts' First-Year Writing Program. The strong training that the department provides and the experience students acquire as independent classroom teachers prepares our Ph.D. candidates for a competitive job market. Our recent Ph.D. recipients have secured faculty positions, including on the tenure-track, as well as other academic positions as teachers, program directors, and administrators. Our students have also been successful in winning prestigious post-doctoral fellowships, including multi-year teaching fellowships.