Graduate Programs
Our graduate programs in English Studies train our students as scholars, teachers, and writers who investigate and enhance functions of language that are essential in human affairs. These functions of language include:
- Communicating with others and achieving a meeting of minds despite differences
- Articulating how the material and social worlds work and how to operate within them, contribute to them, and effect change within them
- Understanding, forming, and re-forming ourselves and others
Each graduate program contributes to this cultural and social work by developing advanced language, literacy, and literary practices that are essential for responsible, productive, and fulfilling global citizenship in the twenty-first century.
Literature, Rhetoric & Writing
Our programs in Literature, Rhetoric, and Writing: How Narratives Make and Change the World will provide students with a deep and nuanced understanding of the ways narratives not only represent the world but also make and change it, for both good and ill. We define narrative broadly as a fundamental and ubiquitous mode of thought that guides perception, constructs feelings, and directs actions, operating at varying scales, in all domains, and through multiple media and modes of perception. We support a broad range of research projects that investigate the social functions of texts in a variety of contexts and the literacy practices of an increasingly digitized contemporary world as enacted in specific communities. This program offers a terminal Masters Degree, as well as a PhD.
Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts
In the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts program, creative writing students pursue the intensive study and practice of literary writing in order to develop advanced abilities to apprehend and articulate the complexities and nuances of human experience and the human condition, and to teach others to do the same.
Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL)
Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) students develop linguistic, pedagogical, and social practices necessary for second language instruction in variety of domestic and international settings, with the ultimate goal of increased cross-national and cross-cultural understanding and cooperation. The TESL program offers a Masters Degree, as well as Certificates and Endorsements.
Graduate Studies Coordinator
Dr. Jennifer MacLure
Satterfield Hall 113B
jmaclure@kent.edu
Graduate Secretary
Bee Viton
Satterfield Hall 113C
bviton@kent.edu
330-672-1708
