Graduate Exams
English, M.A.
English, Ph.D.
- PhD Preliminary Examination Areas and Reading Lists
- Old and Middle English
- Early Modern British Literature: 1500-1660, including Milton
- Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
- Nineteenth-Century British Literature*
- Twentieth-Century British Literature
- American Literature to 1830
- American Literature: 1830-1910
- American Literature: 1910-present
- Criticism and Critical Theory
- Composition, Language, and Rhetoric
- Children's and Young Adult Literature
- Linguistics
- Popular Culture and Film Studies*
- Anglophone Literature
- Folklore
*Students may choose to be examined in IV. a. or b. and in XIII. a. or b. only.
Mailing Address:
Department of English
Middle Tennessee State University
Box 70
1301 East Main Street
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Main Office: Peck Hall 302
Chair: Dr. Stephen Severn
Email: stephen.severn@mtsu.edu
Telephone: (615) 898-2648