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English and American Literature (MA)

Program overview.

The NYU Department of English warmly welcomes qualified applicants who wish to pursue advanced study towards an MA in English. We are a large department that values historical coverage of the field but also embraces innovative approaches to the discipline.  We teach in a wide variety of areas and have research clusters among our faculty and graduate students spanning medieval to twenty-first-century literatures, as well as modernist, postcolonial, African American  and Black Diasporic, Latinx, and Asian American literatures. Students in the department’s MA program explore and deepen their scholarly interests, develop their skills in critical thinking and writing, and write a 35-45-page Master’s Thesis under the supervision of a faculty adviser. The program is typically taken over two years, with the thesis written in either the Fall or Spring of the second year.

Together with the department’s PhD students, MA students originate, organize and receive funding for their own working and reading groups, which currently include Critical Theory and Medievalisms; Cultures of War and the Post-War; Creative Writing; Early Modern Literature; the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature Working Group; the Marxism Working Group; Modern and Contemporary Colloquium; Politics of Empowerment; Postcolonial, Race and Diaspora Studies Colloquium; and the Organism for Poetic Research. 

The English MA program can be taken as part of the Library and Information Science Dual Degree program with Long Island University, and we also offer an Advanced Certificate in Digital Humanities. Please note that NYU’s Creative Writing Program, while affiliated with the Department of English, is administered separately, and a different application process is required for students interested in their MFA Program. See Creative Writing Program for more information.

Note: Students admitted to the MA program in English and American Literature will receive an English Department Scholarship, which covers 50% tuition (not registration and services fees).  

All applicants to the Graduate School of Arts and Science (GSAS) are required to submit the  general application requirements , which include:

• Academic Transcripts
• Test Scores  (if required)
• Applicant Statements
• Résumé or Curriculum Vitae
• Letters of Recommendation , and
• A non-refundable  application fee .

See English for admission requirements and instructions specific to this program.

Program Requirements

Master's project.

Requirements for the program include the completion of 32 credits, 24 of which must be earned through course work taken within the English department. To qualify for the degree, a student must have a GPA of at least 3.0, must complete a minimum of 24 credits with a grade of B or better, and may offer no more than 8 credits with a grade of C. A student may take no more than 36 credits toward the degree.

To be taken in the first term of matriculation.

Additional Program Requirements

The Master's project constitutes the capstone to student’s academic work in the program, and it should accordingly represent the degree candidate’s strongest scholarly and critical effort to date.

Sample Plan of Study

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the program, graduates will:

• Acquire a breadth of knowledge in the history and criticism of literatures in English, especially via the three-course historical distribution requirement. 
• Develop research methods appropriate to graduate-level literary study by exploring and utilizing materials in databases, libraries, and special collections. They also master the correct citation of scholarly sources.
• Learn the norms of scholarly writing, including the use of grammatically correct prose; the logical development of an argument; the application of critical and theoretical frameworks; and the close interpretation and explication of primary texts.
• Through the 9,000-11,000-word MA Special Project (thesis), students develop individual research skills and develop expertise in a chosen topic. Working closely with a faculty mentor, students produce a well argued, original, and substantive piece of literary scholarship. 
• Finally, students develop oral skills in presentation and argumentation. These skills are developed during class presentations and at the MA Thesis Presentations Event, where they present on their Special Projects in a public forum.

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Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth

Associate professor of english education.

Erica Saldívar García

Clinical assistant professor and program director of tesol, bilingual, and world language education.

Robin E. Harvey

Clinical associate professor of tesol, bilingual and world language education.

Co-Director of MA TESOL (Shanghai), Clinical Professor of TESOL

Lorena Llosa

Vice dean of academic affairs, professor of education.

Shondel Nero

Professor of language education.

Kentei Takaya

Associate Professor of Language Education

Heather Woodley

Clinical associate professor of tesol, bilingual education, and world language education.

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Ashley Agbasoga

Assistant Professor

Ashley Ngozi Agbasoga is a scholar and writer whose research interests include Black and Indigenous hemispheric feminisms, racialization (especially . . .

Peder Anker

Peder Anker's teaching and research interests lie in the history of science, ecology, environmentalism and design, as well as . . .

Sinan Antoon

Associate Professor

Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, translator, and scholar. His scholarly works include The Poetics of the Obscene: Ibn . . .

Elaine Ayers

Visiting Assistant Professor

Elaine Ayers is a historian of science who works on the entangled histories of natural history, colonialism, and collecting. . . .

Minju Bae is a historian of Asian America with a particular focus on community-engaged histories of capitalism, racialization, and . . .

Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Gianpaolo Baiocchi is a sociologist and an ethnographer interested in questions of politics and culture, critical social theory, and cities. . . .

David Brooks

Clinical Assistant Professor

David Brooks is an interdisciplinary artist whose work considers the relationship between the individual and the built and natural . . .

Ernest Bryant

Ernest A. Bryant III is a transdisciplinary artist and critic. His interests include drawing, printmaking, nature, new media, conflict, . . .

Dilara Çalışkan

Dilara Caliskan (she/her) is a LGBTI+ rights activist in Turkey and a socio-cultural anthropologist. Across her activism and research, . . .

Shira Sue Carmi

Guess Visiting Professor in Fashion and Fashion Business

Combining a passion for creativity and a talent for business, Shira has been helping conceptualize, launch and grow consumer . . .

Paula Chakravartty

James Weldon Johnson Associate Professor

Paula Chakravarttyis James Weldon Johnson Associate Professor at the Gallatin School and the Department of Media, Culture and Communication . . .

Ngina Chiteji

Ngina Chiteji's teaching and research interests include public policy, macroeconomics, economic inequality, crime, and the distribution of household wealth . . .

Kwami Coleman

Kwami Coleman is a musician, composer, producer, and musicologist specializing in improvised music. His research interests include experimental music . . .

Sybil Cooksey

Sybil Newton Cooksey is a scholar of afro-diasporic history whose research unfurls at the intersections of language and literature, . . .

Marie Cruz Soto

Clinical Associate Professor

Marie Cruz Soto is interested in imperial/colonial processes of becoming (i.e., in the creation and naturalization of coloniality), and . . .

Kim DaCosta

Kim DaCosta is a sociologist interested in racial inequality and, in particular, the contemporary production of racial boundaries. Her . . .

Subah Dayal

In academic year 2024-2025, Dayal will be Visiting Professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, . . .

Anne DeWitt

Anne DeWitt's teaching and research focuses on Victorian literature, the history of science, and the intersections between literature and . . .

Kristoffer Diaz

Kristoffer Diaz is a playwright, screenwriter, musical librettist, and educator. His teaching interests include dramatic writing and contemporary US . . .

Michael Dinwiddie

Michael D. Dinwiddie (GAL BA '80, TSOA MFA '83)'s teaching interests include cultural studies, African American theater history, dramatic . . .

Stephen Duncombe

Stephen Duncombe's interests lie in media, art, and culture. He teaches and writes on the history of mass and . . .

Gregory Erickson

Clinical Professor

Gregory Erickson has taught at the Gallatin School since 2004, specializing in courses on modern literature, popular culture, religion, . . .

Valerie Forman

Valerie Forman's research and teaching interests are at the intersection of literature, economic history, and political theory. Her first . . .

Hallie Franks

Hallie Franks's teaching and research interests are in the art and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean and western Asia. . . .

Rosalind Fredericks

Rosalind Fredericks's research and teaching interests are centered on development, urbanism, and political ecology in Africa. As an urban . . .

Andrea Gadberry

Andrea Gadberry is a comparatist working primarily in English, French, and Latin. Her research focuses on the literature, philosophy, . . .

Hannah Gurman

Hannah Gurman's interests lie in American Studies, U.S. history, intellectual history, literature, and literary criticism, with a focus on . . .

Ethan Harkness

Ethan Harkness teaches and writes about early Chinese culture with an emphasis on technical topics that inform the histories . . .

Louise Harpman

LouiseHarpmanis a Professor of Architecture, Urban Design, and Sustainability at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is also . . .

Karen Holmberg

Clinical Assistant Professor and Scientific Director of the Gallatin WetLab

​Karen Holmberg is an archaeologist who specializes in volcanic contexts to examine the long-term experiences humans have had with . . .

Karen Hornick

Karen Hornick teaches courses that integrate the study of literature, media, philosophy, cultural history, and writing. At Gallatin, she . . .

Kristin Horton

Associate Professor of Practice

KRISTIN HORTON is a director and educator who works primarily on new plays and community-engaged practices. She is committed . . .

Mitchell Joachim

Dr. Mitchell Joachim is an Associate Professor of Practice at New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study and . . .

Shatima Jones

Shatima J. Jones is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. . . .

Nina Katchadourian

Nina Katchadourian is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes video, performance, sound, sculpture, photography and public projects. Her video . . .

Rosanne Kennedy

Rosanne Kennedy's teaching and research interests include modern political theory, contemporary feminist theory and gender studies, continental philosophy, and . . .

Patricia Kim

Patricia Eunji Kim, PhD is an art historian, curator, and educator based in New York City. Her work examines . . .

Eugenia Kisin

Eugenia Kisin is an anthropologist of art whose ethnographic and historical research focuses on the ways that things called . . .

Bradley Lewis

Bradley Lewis has interdisciplinary training in humanities, psychiatry, and continental philosophy. He writes and teaches at the interface of . . .

Ritty Lukose

Ritty Lukose's teaching and research interests explore the relations between culture, politics, and economy in relation to gender and . . .

Ferris Lupino

Ferris Lupino is a political theorist whose research interests include democratic theory, racial politics, and classical studies. His . . .

Julie Malnig

Julie Malnig is a cultural historian of theater and dance performance. Her areas of interest include social and popular . . .

Jenny C. Mann is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in English and Gallatin. Mann is a scholar . . .

Patrick McCreery

Associate Dean of Students and Clinical Assistant Professor

Patrick McCreery's teaching and research interests lie in the areas of sexual politics, family life and the role of . . .

Eve Meltzer

Eve Meltzer is associate professor of Visual Studies at Gallatin and is an affiliated faculty member in NYU's Department . . .

Ali Mirsepassi

Gallatin Research Excellence Professor

Ali Mirsepassi is Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University. He is . . .

Sara Murphy

Sara Murphy's research and teaching interests include literature and philosophy, critical theory, feminist and gender studies, and 19th-century literary . . .

Vasuki Nesiah

Professor of Practice

Vasuki Nesiah teaches human rights, legal and social theory at NYU Gallatin where she is also faculty director of . . .

Stacy Pies teaches courses that explore the role of narrative and culture in texts and human relationships, as well . . .

Millery Polyné

Millery Polyné's teaching and research interests examine the history of US African American and Afro-Caribbean intellectual thought; coloniality in . . .

Todd Porterfield

​A scholar of nineteenth-century European, especially French art, imperialism, and globalization, Porterfield wrote The Allure of Empire: Art in . . .

Myisha Priest

Myisha Priest's teaching and research focus on African American literature and material culture. She has published articles mining this . . .

Ben Ratliff

Ben Ratliff has written about pop, jazz, traditional and experimental music for publications including Granta, Slate, Artforum, Wire, . . .

Jacob Remes

Jacob Remes is a historian of modern North America with a focus on urban disasters, working-class organizations, and migration. . . .

Andrew Romig is a professor of European medieval studies, specializing in the transformations of culture and society during the . . .

Sophia Roosth

Sophia Roosth is an anthropologist who writes about contemporary life and earth sciences. She has published widely in journals . . .

Victoria Rosner

Dean, The Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University

Victoria Rosner is the Dean of the Gallatin School. Her research focuses on modernism across diverse forms of cultural . . .

Laura Slatkin

Gallatin Distinguished Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies

​Laura Slatkin's research and teaching interests include ancient Greek and Roman poetry; wisdom traditions in classical and Near Eastern . . .

David Spielman

David B. Spielman is a historian of the Horn of Africa, with a focus on early modern Christian Ethiopia. . . .

Matthew Stanley

Matthew Stanley teaches and researches the history and philosophy of science. He holds degrees in astronomy, religion, physics, and . . .

Olga Tchepikova-Treon

Olga Tchepikova-Treon is a visiting assistant professor in Cinema/Film Studies at Gallatin. Her research focuses on film and disability, . . .

Eve Tuck is Professor of Indigenous Studies and James Weldon Johnson Professor at Steinhardt, in the Department of Applied . . .

Gregory Vargo

Gregory Vargo's research focuses on the literary and cultural milieu of nineteenth-century British protest movements and the interplay between . . .

Alejandro Velasco

Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs & Associate Professor

Alejandro Velasco holds joint appointments in the Gallatin School and the Department of History, and was Executive Editor of . . .

Eugene Vydrin

Eugene Vydrin teaches and studies European and North American literature, particularly from the twentieth and nineteenth centuries. He is . . .

Lauren Walsh

Lauren Walsh’s books include Through the Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter (2022), Shadow of Memory (co-author, 2021), . . .

Jerome Whitington

Jerome Whitington is an anthropologist of science and environment who received his PhD from UC Berkeley. He specializes in . . .

Susanne Wofford

Susanne Wofford was Dean of the Gallatin School from 2007-2022. Before coming to Gallatin, Professor Wofford taught at Yale . . .

Duncan Yoon

Duncan M. Yoon is an assistant professor at NYU - Gallatin. His book, China in 20th and 21st Century . . .

Maria Hodermarska

Master Teacher, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Maria Hodermarska is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT), a Registered Drama Therapist (RDT) and a Credentialed Alcoholism and . . .

John Sexton

President Emeritus, New York University

John Sexton is President Emeritus, the Benjamin Butler Professor of Law and NYU Law School's Dean Emeritus, having served as . . .

Raven Brown

Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow

Raven E Brown has over 15 years of professional experience and has worked in Guatemala, Israel, Mexico, South Africa, . . .

Cameron Bunker

Class Adviser & Associate Faculty

Cameronis a historian by training with a research focus on the intersections between U.S. imperial history, histories of economy, . . .

Cyd Cipolla

Associate Director of Science, Technology, Arts and Creativity (STAC) & Associate Faculty

Cyd Cipolla is a scholar in women's, gender, and sexuality studies whose research and teaching interests focus on intersectional . . .

William Clark

William Clark’s teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of critical philosophy, literary theory, and cinema studies. His . . .

Director of Community Engagement & Associate Faculty

Lisa Daily is a cultural studies scholar with broadly conceived interests centered on visual media, capitalist formations, humanitarianism, and . . .

Mehmet Darakcioglu

Assistant Dean for Global Programs

Mehmet Darakcõoglu is a historian of the modern Middle East with a focus on the Ottoman Empire in the . . .

Nicholas Devlin

NicholasDevlin works primarily on the English reception of Greek and Latin materials in early modern historical writing, political theory, . . .

Karolina Dos Santos

Dr. Dos Santos is a Du Boisian sociologist interested in how social movements reshape urban America. Broadly, her work . . .

Emil Flatø is a historian of science writing about the politics of environmental knowledge in the long digital age. . . .

Romina Garcia

Romina Garcia is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research focuses on examining the structural and administrative anti-black violence that encompasses . . .

Meira Gold is a historian of science and archaeology with research interests in colonial Egyptology, human origins, and the . . .

Janet Gomez

Senior Director of Experiential Learning & Associate Faculty

Dr. Janet E. Gomez is a literary scholar whose research and teaching interests revolve around the figure of warrior . . .

Gwynneth Malin

Administrative Director, MA Program & Associate Faculty

Gwynneth C. Malin is an historian and an archivist by training whose research interests focus on the intersections between . . .

Irene Morrison-Moncure

Irene Morrison-Moncure's teaching and research focuses on the relationship between power and literature in the ancient world. Her particular . . .

Bernadette Myers

Bernadette Myers is a scholar of early modern English literature and culture, specializing in theater, the environmental humanities, and . . .

Amy Obermeyer

Director of Student Affairs & Associate Faculty

Amy Obermeyer's research focuses on gender and literary subjectivity in Japanese and Latin American literature from the late-nineteenth through . . .

Allyson Paty

Writing Program Director & Associate Faculty

Allyson Paty is the author of Jalousie (Tupelo Press, 2025), winner of the 2023 Berkshire Prize, and several . . .

Rohan Shah is a historian of the 20th century United States from a global perspective, with a focus on . . .

Amy Spellacy

Assistant Dean of Advising & Associate Faculty

Amy Spellacy’s teaching and research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, literature of the Americas, U.S. Latino/a literature, . . .

Yevgeniya Traps

Yevgeniya Traps’s teaching and research focus on the ways in which individual psychology and social and cultural factors influence . . .

Vasu Varadhan

Associate Faculty

Vasu Varadhan's teaching interests are in the areas of media and cultural change and in South Asian Studies. Her . . .

Delio Vasquez

Delio Vásquez holds a PhD in the History of Consciousness from the University of California Santa Cruz with concentrations . . .

Malik Walker

Malik holds a PhD in Constructive Theology from Fordham University, where he completed his dissertation on "Saving Space: A . . .

Cameron Williams

Cameron is a literature scholar primarily interested in experimental modes of knowledge production. He holds a PhD in English . . .

Beth Epstein

Academic Director, NYUParis

Beth Epstein’s research focuses on intersections in the history and meaning of race and “difference” between France and the United . . .

Gabriella Etmektsoglou

Director, NYU Berlin

Gabriella Etmektsoglou is the Director of NYU Berlin since 2010. She holds a PhD in European history from Emory University. . . .

Anna Kazumi Stahl

Director, NYU Buenos Aires

Anna Kazumi Stahl is a fiction writer and holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. . . .

Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb

Part-time Faculty

Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on the study of ideology and its connection to power . . .

Nancy Agabian

Nancy Agabian is the author of Princess Freak (Beyond Baroque Books, 2000), a collection of poems, short prose, . . .

Cynthia Allen

Cynthia Allen is on the Executive Committee (nominator) of the renowned New York Theatre Critics' organization, Outer Critics Circle . . .

Diana Anders

Prior to joining Gallatin, Diana Anders earned her Ph.D. in Rhetoric with a Designated Emphasis on Gender Studies from . . .

Jaime Arredondo

Jaime Arredondo has taught at NYU, the Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and The New School. Arrendondo has . . .

Saul Austerlitz

Saul Austerlitz teaches the courses Writing About American Comedy and Writing About Television Drama. He is the author of . . .

Jessie Austrian

Cris Beam is the author of Transparent: Love, Family and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers (Harcourt, 2007), . . .

Elizabeth Benninger

ElizabethBenningerearned her doctorate in Comparative Literature at NYU in 2023. She specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature and . . .

Jamie Berthe

Director of Enrollment Management & Part-time Faculty

Jamie Berthe holds a PhD from NYU's Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. Her research interests revolve primarily around . . .

Donna Bilak

Donna Bilak is a historian of early modern science and a goldsmith. Bilak's research areas as a historian and . . .

Barton Bishop

Barton Bishop received his MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2003 and was . . .

Alvaro Bonfiglio Bardier

Alvaro Bonfiglio is a researcher, educator and practicing architect, focused on emergent design technologies. His current research interests revolve . . .

Martha Bowers

Martha Bowers focuses on the use of the performing arts for social change. She has taught at numerous colleges . . .

Christopher Bram

A novelist and critic, Christopher Bram is the author of nine novels, including Gods and Monsters, which was made . . .

Eric Brettschneider

ERIC BRETTSCHNEIDER : Entered the child welfare and human services field in 1967 as a family courtintake worker and . . .

Leila Buck is a Lebanese-American writer, performer, and intercultural facilitator who has lived and worked in more than 20 . . .

George Burns

George Burns has spent more than 40 years as a teacher and principal in progressive elementary schools in New . . .

Maria Cabrera Arus

Mar’a A. Cabrera Arœs studies the impact of fashion and domestic material culture on regime stability and legitimation, with . . .

William Caspary

Bill Caspary holds BS and MS degrees in physics and a PhD in political science. His activism in the . . .

John Castellano

John Castellano is the founder of the SOJ Jazz Workshop Center and Director Emeritus of The Collective School of . . .

Sarah Chihaya

Sarah Chihaya is a critic, essayist, and editor whose work focuses on contemporary fiction and film in English. She . . .

Julian Cornell

Julian Cornell’s primary research and teaching areas are American, Scandinavian, and Japanese cinema and genre cinema, including disaster movies, . . .

Pedro Cristiani

A director, producer, and screenwriter for film and television, Pedro Cristiani wrote the screenplay for the award-winning 1996 feature film . . .

Jamil Dakwar

Jamil Dakwar is international human rights lawyer and expert. He is currently the director of the American Civil Liberties . . .

Sam is an ethnographer, translator, and Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department at NYU. His research follows the everyday . . .

Audrey Ellis

Audrey Lane Ellis is a philosopher trained in the traditions of phenomenology, ethics, and aesthetics, in addition to women’s, . . .

Ayana Evans

Ayana Evans is a NYC-based performance artist. Her guerilla-style performances have been staged at El Museo del Barrio, The . . .

June Foley’s teaching and research interests are Victorian Studies, especially the novel; writing for young readers; and English (especially . . .

Simon Fortin

Son and grandson of Canadian actors, Simon Fortin trained at the Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique du Québec, then at Drama Studio . . .

Sara Franklin

Sara Franklin is an oral historian and journalist whose work focuses on food and agriculture and its ties to . . .

Lise Friedman

Lise Friedman’s teaching involves the examination and design of a wide variety of publications and the relationship of popular . . .

Cheryl Furjanic

Cheryl Furjanic is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker whose documentary and fiction films have screened at 150+ festivals worldwide and on television. . . .

Charles Gelman

Charles Gelman earned his PhD from the Department of Comparative Literature at NYU in 2019 with a concentration in . . .

Bret Gladstone

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English (2022 - 2024), advisement and general information.

Students interested in declaring the major in English should visit the department or contact either the director of undergraduate studies or the undergraduate administrator, Ms. Mary Mezzano ( [email protected] ). 

To declare the major, students should access the declaration form at the departmental website.

Major in English and American Literature

A minimum of ten 4-point courses (40 points), completed with a grade of C or better and distributed as follows:

• Introduction to the Study of Literature (ENGL-UA 101)
• Literatures in English I: Medieval and Early Modern Literatures (ENGL-UA 111)
• Literatures in English II: Literatures of the British Isles and British Empire 1660-1900 (ENGL-UA 112)
• Literatures in English III: American Literatures to 1900 (ENGL-UA 113)
• Literatures in English IV: Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literatures (ENGL-UA 114)
• One course in critical theories and methods. The following courses are typically used to fulfill this requirement: ENGL-UA 712, ENGL-UA 735.
• One course in British literature before 1800. The following courses are typically used to fulfill this requirement: ENGL-UA 143, ENGL-UA 310, ENGL-UA 320, ENGL-UA 410, ENGL-UA 445, ENGL-UA 450, ENGL-UA 512.
• One senior seminar. Students must complete the first four courses above (ENGL-UA 101, and three chosen from ENGL-UA 111-114) to be eligible to enroll in seminars. The following courses are used to fulfill this requirement: ENGL-UA 950-955; 960-965; and 970-976.
• Three additional ENGL-UA courses drawn from any combination of intermediate courses, advanced courses, or seminars.

Major in English and American Literature, Track with a Specialization in Creative Writing

A minimum of eleven 4-point courses and two 2-point courses (48 points), completed with a grade of C or better and distributed as follows:

• Reading as a Writer (ENGL-UA 201)
• Either one course in critical theories and methods (typically chosen from ENGL-UA 712, ENGL-UA 735), or one course in British literature before 1800 (typically chosen from ENGL-UA 143, ENGL-UA 310, ENGL-UA 320, ENGL-UA 410, ENGL-UA 445, ENGL-UA 450, ENGL-UA 512).
• One senior seminar. Students must complete the first five courses listed above (ENGL-UA 101, three chosen from ENGL-UA 111-114, and ENGL-UA 201) to be eligible to enroll in seminars. The following courses are used to fulfill this requirement: ENGL-UA 950-955; 960-965; and 970-976.
• Two additional ENGL-UA courses, drawn from any combination of intermediate courses, advanced courses, or seminars.
• A creative capstone project with a Department of English faculty member (a creative writing project in poetry, prose, or a hybrid genre). Students enroll in both ENGL-UA 910 and 911 (2 points each).
• Two courses in Creative Writing. Creative Writing: Introduction to Fiction and Poetry (CRWRI-UA 815) is required, followed by one intermediate CRWRI-UA course.

Minor in English and American Literature

This is a five-course (20-point) minor. The requirements, all to be completed with a grade of C or better, are:

• Plus any three additional ENGL-UA courses.

Policies Applying to the Major and Minor

Courses used to satisfy requirements for the English major or minor may not be used to satisfy the requirements of any other major or minor. The only exception is for students in the creative writing major track who also have a minor in creative writing (they may double-count two courses between the major and minor). Independent study courses and internships do not count toward any of the department's major or minor programs. Transfer students must complete at least half of the required courses for the major and minor programs at the College. All courses for the major must be completed with a C or better (Pass/Fail does not count).

ENGL-UA 101 is a prerequisite for ENGL-UA 111, 112, 113, and 114, but may be taken as a corequisite with permission of the department and/or instructor.

Honors Program

The requirements for graduating with honors in the major in English consist of:

• A 3.65 GPA, both overall and in the major.
• A senior capstone seminar chosen from ENGL-UA 950-955, ENGL-UA 960-965, and ENGL-UA 970-976, which serves as a prerequisite to both the Honors Thesis and Colloquium).
• Enrollment for two consecutive terms in Seniors Honors Thesis (ENGL-UA 925) and completion of a thesis (on a topic of the student's choice) under the direction of departmental faculty.
• Concurrently with ENGL-UA 925: enrollment for two consecutive terms in the Senior Honors Colloquium for thesis writers (ENGL-UA 926).

December graduates begin the concurrent ENGL-UA 925 and 926 sequences in the spring term and complete them in the fall; May graduates begin the sequences in the fall and complete them in the spring. Applications and deadlines are available on the department's undergraduate website and at the department offices.

The Department of English encourages its majors to take advantage of NYU's many opportunities for study away. NYU London offers courses that may be used to fulfill major requirements, as well as courses in British politics, creative writing, and the history of British art and architecture. A list of both ENGL-UA and non-ENGL-UA courses offered by the various NYU study away programs that may be counted toward specific requirements for the major can be found on the department's website each term. English majors should consult a departmental adviser before making plans to study away.

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Graduate Lawyering Faculty Biographies

Irene Segal Ayers

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Irene Segal Ayers is Director of the Graduate Lawyering Program. She joined the NYU faculty in 2005, and has taught in both the NYU Lawyering program and the Graduate Lawyering program. Prior to joining the faculty, she practiced international intellectual property and technology law. Ayers is a 1999 graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she was elected Order of the Coif and was awarded the Timothy Walker Founders Scholarship, the College of Law’s most prestigious scholarship. She has undergraduate and graduate degrees in English from Bryn Mawr College and the Indiana University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Before becoming a lawyer, she taught undergraduate English literature and writing for eight years.

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Karen M. Ross is the founding Director of the Legal English Program and the Deputy Director of the Graduate Lawyering Program.  She began teaching at NYU Law in 2010 as an Adjunct Professor of Law and was appointed to the full time faculty in 2015.  Before teaching, Ms. Ross worked in private practice and as a law clerk to judges in the state court system. She also served as an administrative law judge in New York City for various city agencies. Ms. Ross received a Master’s Degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, a Juris Doctor from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude , from Tufts University. Ms. Ross is the author of Essential Legal English in Context: Understanding the Vocabulary of US Law and Government (NYU Press, 2019).

Alice E. Burke

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Alice Estill Burke teaches in the Graduate Lawyering Program. She began teaching at NYU as an Adjunct Professor of Graduate Lawyering in 2019 and was appointed to the full-time Graduate Lawyering Program faculty in 2020. Ms. Burke has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Practice at Seton Hall University in Newark, New Jersey and as a Writing Specialist at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois. Before entering academia, Ms. Burke represented management in labor and employment matters both in private practice and as in-house counsel. Ms. Burke graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. She received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Mississippi University for Women.

Susan Chung

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Susan Chung joined the Graduate Lawyering Program faculty in 2021 after teaching Legal Writing at Fordham Law School for over fifteen years.  At Fordham, she also ran the LL.M. Legal Writing Program as the Legal Writing Coordinator.  Prior to teaching, she was an attorney at the Bronx Defenders.  She also served as a judicial law clerk to Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and to Honorable Robert Ward of U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y.  She received her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, where she was an editor of the Law Review, Crowley Scholar in International Human Rights, and Stein Scholar in Public Interest Law.  She received her M.A. and B.A. from Columbia University. 

Rachael Liebert 

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Rachael Liebert is a member of the full-time faculty of the Graduate Lawyering Program. She previously taught at NYU in the J.D. Lawyering Program from 2018 to 2022, and served as the Associate Director of the Lawyering Program from 2021-2022. Before returning to NYU, Rachael worked to improve indigent defense systems across the country as an attorney at the Sixth Amendment Center. Rachael began her legal career as a public defender in Boston, where she spent five years representing clients charged with misdemeanors and felonies in all aspects of their criminal cases. Rachael received her J.D. from NYU Law and her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dorien Ediger-Seto

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Dorien Ediger-Seto (they/she) teaches in the Graduate Lawyering Program, which she joined after serving as Acting Assistant Professor in NYU's JD Lawyering Program from 2022-2024. Dorien has also served as Adjunct Professor at the City University of New York School of Law's CLEAR Clinic and as a clinical fellow at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law Immigration Law Clinic. Prior to academic teaching, Dorien practiced deportation defense at various non-profit legal service providers including the National Immigrant Justice Center and the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project. Dorien received her J.D. from the City University of New York School of Law and her B.A. from Vassar College.

Gerald Lebovits

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Gerald Lebovits  is an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Lawyering program. A judge since 2001, Justice Lebovits presides in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan. He previously presided in the New York City Civil Court, the New York City Criminal Court, and the New York City Housing Court. After completing his Civil Law license in French at the University of Ottawa in Canada in 1979, he received a Master of Civil Law at Tulane University School of Law in 1980 and, in 1986, an LL.M. from NYU, where he studied international and comparative criminal justice. This is his 35th year teaching law. Students at three law schools have elected him Adjunct Professor of the Year.

Nicholas W. Haddad 

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Nicholas William Haddad is an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Lawyering Program.  He also serves as Senior Legal Editor at Practical Law, where he writes and speaks on all aspects of federal civil litigation, and teaches First-Year Legal Writing at Fordham Law School, where he was named the 2018 Adjunct Teacher of the Year.

Previously, Mr. Haddad was a member of Jones Day’s Issues & Appeals group.  His practice focused on appellate litigation and motion practice in both state and federal courts.  Before that, he clerked for the Honorable Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, and the Honorable Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York.  Mr. Haddad began his legal career as a litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell.  

Mr. Haddad graduated summa cum laude from Fordham Law School, where he served as an Associate Editor of the Fordham Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.  He received his A.B., magna cum laude , from Georgetown University.

Amanda Sen Villalobos 

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Amanda Sen Villalobos is an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Lawyering Program at NYU Law and is the Associate Director of Legal Writing and Moot Court Programs at Columbia Law School. Previously, Ms. Sen Villalobos taught in the J.D. Lawyering Program at NYU Law. As a practicing attorney, Ms. Sen Villalobos litigated family and special education matters in court and in administrative proceedings. Her scholarship focuses on families and the state.

Ms. Sen Villalobos earned her J.D. from NYU Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern (Sinsheimer) Scholar and an Executive Editor of the NYU Law Review. She received her B.A., magna cum laude , from Washington University in St. Louis and also earned an M.A.Ed. from Washington University in St. Louis.

Jackie Duhl

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Jackie Duhl is an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Lawyering Program and Legal Fellow II with NYU's State Energy and Environmental Impact Center. Prior to joining the Center, Jackie played a pivotal role in building financial technology startup, BlockFi, serving as the organization’s Senior Counsel, Policy Counsel, and Associate Corporate Counsel. Prior to joining BlockFi, Jackie was an associate with Kirkland & Ellis, representing companies with billion-dollar capital structures in a variety of restructuring and capital markets deal contexts. Jackie’s pro bono work has included representing clients in immigration and family law proceedings, as well as nonprofit formation and operations. Jackie was selected for the New York City Environmental Law Leadership Institute in 2023. Jackie earned her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating magna cum laude, with honors in earth science.

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English Language Testing

Language proficiency testing policy.

All NYU students must have a strong command of the English language to be successful in a fast-paced, rigorous academic environment. If English is not your first language, you may be asked to submit results from an English language proficiency exam taken within the last two years as proof of English proficiency. NYU considers the validity of application material and documentation to be of the utmost priority, please see our Application Authenticity policy here.

How Do I Know If I Need to Take a Language Proficiency Test?

You do not need to if:

• English is your first language (Someone's first language is the language that they learned first and speak best).
• You already completed (at the time of application submission) three or more full-time consecutive academic years in a curriculum where the only language of instruction was English.

A couple points to consider when applying to NYU if you are not a first English speaker:

• If you are taking a bilingual curriculum, you are still required to submit English language test results.
• For most students, the policy means that you must have been in an English-language curriculum since the equivalent of 9th grade. If you have only been taught in English since the equivalent of 10th grade, we will require English language testing.

When Do I Need to Take One of These Exams? 

Exams should be completed before the application deadline, and results cannot be more than 2 years old by application submission.  While we will consider scores received after the application deadline, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to wait for those scores to arrive before making an admissions decision.

Which Exams Should I Take?

• TOEFL iB T (Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-Based Test).  We will accept results from the in-person version or the iBT Home Edition.
• Duolingo English Test
• IELTS Academic (International English Language Testing System)
• PTE Academic (Pearsons Test of English Academic)
• C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency (Cambridge English: Advanced or Proficiency) 
• iTEP (International Test of English Proficiency - Academic-Plus).  We will accept results from the in-person or online version.

We do not accept results from the TOEFL Essentials or the PTE Academic Online. We also do not accept TOEFL iBT "My Best" scores or IELTS One Skill Retake.  If you took the TOEFL iBT or IELTS, please send us your result from the test wherein you received the highest composite score.

Additional exams may be added at a later time. Please refer to our English Language policy before applying and/or taking any exams to ensure your test scores will satisfy our application requirements. 

What Do I Need to Score on One of These Tests?

We don’t have minimum score requirements, but competitive applicants will receive:

• 100 and above on the TOEFL iBT
• 130 and above on the Duolingo English Test
• 7.5 and above on the IELTS Academic
• 70 and above on the PTE Academic
• 191 and above on the Cambridge English Scale
• 4.5 and above on the iTEP (C1 Advanced and C2 Mastery)

How Do I Submit My Results to NYU? 

For the TOEFL iBT, use NYU's code 2562.

For the IELTS Academic, please follow the instructions on this  site ; when prompted, search for "New York University" and release results to Undergraduate Admissions as opposed to one of our schools or colleges. Similarly, for the PTE Academic, C1 Advanced and C2 Proficiency, select "New York University" as opposed to one of our specific NYU schools or colleges. Searching for "NYU" will not return any results; you must search using our official name.

For the Duolingo English Test, please follow the instructions outlined in Duolingo's  "How do I send my Duolingo English Test results to institutions?"  documentation to send your score to NYU for free.

If you are unable to submit official results for any test except the Duolingo English Test, you can alternatively self-report unofficial results or upload unofficial test result documents to your portal after you apply (for admissions review purposes only).  

Am I Required to Interview with NYU?

No. Interviews are not required and cannot be requested by candidates for admission to NYU.

Additional Information

NYU reserves the right to request an English language exam if we believe this information would be helpful in the review of the application.

English as a second language (ESL) courses will not be considered as meeting the all-English language requirement for the year they were taken in.

PhD Student Resources

Find the resources you need for financial aid, scholarships, housing information, and more. 

Academic and community resources that are applicable to all students can be found on our  Resources for All Students  page.

Please note:  Most of the content in this area of the site is stored in Google Drive. To access some of it, you need to be logged into Gmail with your NYU credentials, and you will be prompted to do so if you are not already. Access to the PhD Resource Hub is limited to current PhD students.

Financial Aid & Scholarships

Below are resources provided by the Scholarship and Financial Education (SAFE) Office to guide you through the Financial Aid process at Silver. This includes how to set up your account, apply for and accept your aid; guidelines for keeping your NYU Silver scholarship; information on how aid is applied to your account; and a general overview of various financial aid policies.

• How to Apply for and Accept Financial Aid
• Competitive School-Based Named Scholarships
• Guidelines to Keep Your Silver Tuition Scholarship
• NYU Student Emergency Fund
• PhD Financial Aid Guidelines
• Deferral and Tuition Refund Policies
• Dual Degree Programs - Scholarship Distribution and Residency
• Financial Aid FAQs

Housing Information

NYU Silver’s PhD program does not provide on-campus housing, however NYU provides information about securing off-campus housing in NYC and what is needed as well as searchable listings of current apartments, a roommate finder function, and more.

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Admissions Overview

• Students who will have completed their bachelor’s degrees before the Fall enrollment date are eligible to apply.
• Students from all academic majors are eligible to apply. Having a strong foundation in the basic social sciences, math or engineering, depending on the discipline to which one applies, is preferred.
• Previous graduate work and professional work experience are not admissions requirements.

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Dongqin Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow of Social Science, NYU Shanghai Email [email protected]

Dongqin Wang is a Postdoctoral Fellow of Social Science at NYU Shanghai. She received her PhD from Osaka University. Her research fields are Development Economics and Health Economics, with a focus on understanding the determinants of human capital and productivity, as well as their responses to policy interventions. Additionally, she is also interested in the drivers of effective public service delivery in developing countries.

Select Publications

• “Sanitation and Work Time: Evidence from the Toilet Revolution in rural China.” (with Yanni Shen) World Development , 2022, 158, 105992.
• “How does Religion Affect Health in the Gold Mining Industry? Evidence from Nigeria.” Review of Development Economics , 2022, 16, 2218-2250.
• “Public Wash Programs, Long-Run Child Development, and Intergenerational Mobility: New Evidence from Rural People’s Republic of China.”(with Eddy Zou) ADBI working paper, 1396
• PhD, International Public Policy Osaka University, Japan, 2019-2022
• MA, International Public Policy Osaka University, Japan, 2017-2019
• BA, Journalism Sanda University, China, 2008-2012  

Research Interests

• Development Economics
• Health Economics

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