Master of Arts in English, Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies

The Master of Arts in English, Literature program has a new name and a remodeled curriculum, starting fall 2009. The Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies program emphasizes new approaches to literary texts and fosters the study of texts that expand the traditional definitions of literature. It prepares students for both academic and non-academic careers by encouraging them to make connections among texts (critical, theoretical, scholarly, and creative), to engage in research and critical thinking at an advanced level, and to write and present scholarship of merit and distinction.

Many courses in the program are interdisciplinary, integrating literature with the visual arts, film, music, history, and politics. The new curriculum now includes courses like Teaching College Literature, as well as a Capstone Course to help students hone their teaching and academic writing skills to prepare for competitive job markets.

The graduate faculty in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies publish and teach in a wide range of areas—from medieval romance to digital media, from early American captivity narratives to contemporary experimental fiction—and from a variety of theoretical perspectives.

For more information about admissions and program requirements and University graduate policies, consult the UCF Graduate Catalog. If you have more questions, contact the Graduate Programs Assistant.

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Faculty

Patricia Angley
Instructor
Research Interests: Twentieth-Century American Literature; Faulkner and Southern Literature; Women Writers and Feminist Theory; Ethnic American Literature; Contemporary Composition Theory and Pedagogy

James Campbell
Associate Professor
Research Interests: British and Irish Literature since 1885, War and Literature, Sexuality Theory, Science Fiction

Lynn Casmier-Paz
Associate Professor

Anthony Grajeda
Associate Professor

Anna Maria Jones
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Victorian literature and culture; critical theory; history of the novel; sensation fiction; science and literature

Mark L Kamrath
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Brown and the Early Republic, 1771-1810; Eighteenth-Century Periodicals and Print Culture; Atlantic Studies; Digital Humanities and Textual Editing

Anna Lillios
Associate Professor

Lisa M Logan
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Early American Literature; Women's Personal Narratives, including autobiography, diary, and memoir, and especially captivity, crime, travel, and cross-dressing; Feminist Theory; American Novel; theories of space and place

Barry Mauer
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Film and Media Studies; Cultural Studies; Rhetoric and Composition; Literary Theory; Memory and Monuments

Kevin Meehan
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Caribbean Literature, African American Literature, Haitian Studies, Literature and Educational Development

Patrick D. Murphy
Professor
Research Interests: Nature-oriented Literature; Contemporary Multicultural American Literature; Comparative Asian American and Asian Literatures; Modern American Poetry; Ecocriticism; science fiction; bodied subjecthood and identities; Bakhtinian dialogics

Kathleen M. Oliver
Associate Professor
Research Interests: British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660 - 1830; Eighteenth-Century British Novelists (particularly Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, and Frances Sheridan); Fashion, Clothing, and Dress in Literature; Literary and Cultural Theory; Feminist and Gender Theory; Eighteenth-Century British Culture

Tison Pugh
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Medieval English Literature; Queer and Gender Studies; Pedagogy; Film; Children's Literature; Southern Literature

Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés
Associate Professor

Craig Saper
Professor
Research Interests: Digital Rhetoric New Media StudiesOnline and Digital ScholarshipVisual Poetry Networked ArtHeuretic Cultural Studies

Kathryn Lee Seidel
Professor
Research Interests: Dr. Seidel publishes in the area of women writers and literature of the American South.

Dawn Trouard
Professor