The Master of Arts in English at Ohio State University offers students the opportunity to delve deeply into literary studies, rhetoric and composition, cultural studies, and critical theory. This research-driven program prepares students for doctoral study, teaching roles, publishing, or careers in media and communication. With access to rare archives, digital humanities tools, and cross-disciplinary coursework, students engage in robust analysis of texts from antiquity to the contemporary period. Through a combination of seminars, teaching practicums, and thesis work, the program cultivates critical thinking, articulate expression, and scholarly excellence.
Narrative temporality in modernist stream-of-consciousness fiction
Archival research on 19th-century abolitionist periodicals
Race and gothic tropes in contemporary horror literature
Gender and genre in Renaissance dramatic verse
Eco-criticism in climate fiction and speculative novels
Visual culture and representation in Victorian illustrated texts
Digital humanities approaches to literary metadata analysis
Feminist retellings of classical mythology in recent fiction
Diasporic poetics and trauma in postcolonial verse
Queer readings of friendship in 18th-century epistolary novels
Textual editing of unpublished modernist manuscripts
Comparative media studies in book-to-screen adaptations
The sublime and terror in Romantic landscape poetry
Linguistic analysis of dialect in regional American fiction
Poetry of resistance during wartime occupation
Intertextuality between Shakespeare and contemporary Black playwrights
The role of citation in academic prose as rhetorical performance
Soundscapes and silence in experimental fiction
Metafiction and the ethics of storytelling
Digital publishing and literary canon formation in the 21st century
Explore the power of language and literature through OSU’s M.A. in English.
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