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Graduate Admissions

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Welcome from the Director of Graduate Studies

Derek Miller 1Our graduate students come from across the globe, with a huge range of life experiences, tastes, and talents. Graduate education in the Harvard English Department is about helping each of our unique students become the scholar, teacher, writer, reader, mentor, and citizen they want to be. To that end, we have rigorous requirements: exams, coursework, and, of course, the dissertation, all of which help inspire the next generation of leading scholars of English literature. But we also know that university teaching and research is only one possible career for our graduates. Academia is undergoing immense changes; no two students’ paths—through our program and after it—will look the same. Thus we train students for professional success in academia while simultaneously preparing them for a wide range of other lives and careers.  Read more.

Teaching Fellows

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

 

 

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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.

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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. 


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COGS

The Committee of Graduate Students (COGS) consists of elected representatives who serve on decision-making committees in the department as well as in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

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Graduate Prizes

A full listing of English graduate prize submission guidelines and prize information. 

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Job Placement

A comprehensive list of recent job placements, current alumni positions, and a sampling of books from dissertations. 

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