Program Overview

The Joint Ph.D. Program in English and Education prepares students
with prior teaching experience to assume positions as professors of
English and/or professors of Education. The Program emphasizes
research traditions and methods appropriate to study in the
discipline of English as well as those customarily followed in the
study of educational issues; because of this, the Program is
interdisciplinary in character, and students have the opportunity to
take a broad range of courses in English and education, and others
outside those fields.

What is the Program really like?

One of the Program's chief strengths is the consistent and supportive colleagueship that has developed among students and faculty. The Program has helped its many highly qualified students achieve a satisfying, rich doctoral experience; in large part because it offers mature graduate students the flexibility they need to achieve their own aims in a demanding intellectual environment. Current students will gladly explain their experience.   A recent issue of the Program newsletter, Dimensions and Directions, is available upon request.

See what our graduates are doing.

Traditionally, graduates of the Program have obtained jobs in:  (a) university English departments focusing on rhetoric and composition or on English education (b) university departments of education, teaching methods courses, adolescent literature, or literacy courses.  Some graduates have found joint appointments in English departments and schools of education.  Others have assumed supervisory roles in state departments of education, in intermediate school districts, and in independent schools. The Program’s placement rate is excellent; please take a moment to view a list of our alumni and their current positions.

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