UVA’s PhD in English empowers students to produce original scholarship across historical periods, global literatures, and theoretical frameworks. With a strong emphasis on archival work, teaching, and public humanities, candidates are trained for academic excellence and cultural leadership. The program supports dissertation research that challenges existing canons and reimagines textual study in the digital age.
Digital reconstruction of lost Harlem Renaissance periodicals
Textual scholarship on Milton’s political prose and handwritten manuscripts
Critical race theory in 18th-century British literature
Temporal aesthetics in contemporary autofiction
The rhetoric of abolition in early American newspapers
Queer archival practices in 20th-century performance texts
Colonial encounters in maritime literature from the Atlantic world
Translation ethics in world literature curricula
Reimagining the English canon through AI-generated criticism
Critical pedagogy in teaching Shakespeare in under-resourced classrooms
Global modernism and its intersection with urban architectural texts
Black speculative fiction as counternarrative to Enlightenment rationality
Narrative theory and voice in Indigenous autobiographical writing
Text mining of sentiment patterns in 19th-century serialized novels
Analysis of race and intimacy in prison literature
Medieval feminist readings of Chaucer’s lesser-known works
Augmented reality tools for literary immersion and annotation
Create transformative literary scholarship with UVA’s comprehensive PhD in English.
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