Graduate

Graduate Admissions

Program Description

Welcome from the Director of Graduate Studies

carpio dgs Most of you will enter our graduate program expecting to take classes, pass exams, and (ultimately) write a dissertation. But being a graduate student is about much more than that. As a graduate student, you will be a full member of the department, which means that you will be invited to take part in our intellectual and social life. We hope that you will not only attend department lectures (as well as lectures and seminars hosted by the Humanities Center), but also participate in the question and answer sessions and discussions afterward. Read more

Teaching Fellows

Teaching fellow application and instructions ● listing of teaching fellow offices ● courses of instruction

Resources for Graduate Students

An internal website with an exhaustive listing of all the forms you will need as an English graduate student; it also contains Generals Lists, example language exams, example Fields Lists and example prospectuses.

Fellowships

Fellowship application information for Graduate Society Fellowships/Term Time Awards for Dissertation Research ● Harvard Merit Fellowships ● Harvard Research and Travel Fellowships ● GSAS Summer School Tuition Waiver Fellowships ● Dissertation Completion Fellowships.