Doctor of Philosophy in English - Literary and Cultural Studies

University of Cincinnati

The graduate program in Literary and Cultural Studies (LCS) offers students fully-funded opportunities for individualized paths of study in a wide variety of literary traditions, cultural theories, and research methodologies. MA students are eligible for two years of a full-tuition fellowship plus a teaching assistantship. PhD students are eligible for four years of a full-tuition fellowship plus a teaching assistantship. In recent years, the English Department has been able to provide students with enhanced student lectureships that supply a fifth year of funding, and there are additional research funding and grant opportunities through the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center and the University Research Council.Unlike many graduate programs where teaching assistants support faculty teaching large lecture classes, graduate teaching assistants at UC are instructors of record in their own courses and they receive extensive pedagogical training, including a required graduate seminar on teaching composition. Similarly, while graduate teaching assistants in comparably-sized programs often teach 3 or 4 classes per year, MA and PhD students at UC teach only one section of composition per semester. Furthermore, our PhD students also have opportunities to teach literature courses, including both historical surveys and topics courses, where they can design creative classes on subjects that reflect their research interests and growing areas of expertise (e.g. ''Queer Comics,'' ''Badass Women on Film,'' and ''Revenge'').