English M.A. Program
Faculty

Our graduate faculty consists of 30 full-time faculty, dedicated both to teaching, and to scholarship and creative work. The faculty is energetic and active at Western and in the larger profession. Our faculty has developed innovative curriculum and consistently receives excellent student evaluations. We firmly believe that our scholarship and creative writing make us better teachers. English Department faculty have received Fulbright scholarships, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants for scholarly research, and national awards for their publications. Our faculty has published a wide range of books in a variety of genres and disciplines, and our work regularly appears in prestigious journals and magazines. Our Department display of faculty publications reflects the diversity of our research and writing interests: anthologies, books of poetry, essay collections, linguistic studies, literary studies, memoirs, novels, pedagogical studies, textbooks, and more--all signal the lively mix of our faculty and their work.