As part of a research university with over 5,000 graduate students, the English Department offers an M.A. program, a Ph.D. program, and an M.A. in Teaching for English teachers, as well as an M.A. concentration in Irish Literature and Culture and a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities.
Interested in graduate studies in English?
The English Department offers an interdisciplinary M.A. in Irish Literature and Culture, which is an integral part of Boston College’s esteemed Irish Studies Program.
A joint effort of the English and History Departments and the Boston College Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Group, the Certificate in Digital Humanities can be completed on its own, or as part of the course work for the M.A. or Ph.D in English.
34
doctoral students
2022-23
39
master's students
2022-23
100%
of doctoral students receive full tuition remission and a stipend
The English Department is home to a number of working groups that bring graduate students and faculty together around a shared scholarly interest. These include: The Early Modern Reading Group, The Religion and Literature Collaborative, The American Studies Working Group, The Pedagogy Seminar, and Postcolonial Social Theory and the Sociology of Race.
Boston College boasts a system of nine linked libraries, containing nearly three million volumes, along with state-of-the-art online access. The rare books collection at the Burns Library offers significant holdings in Irish culture, literature, and history, as well as British Catholic authors and ethnic studies of Africana and Caribbeana.
Boston College is home to the McMullen Museum of Art, which collaborates with members of the faculty to curate world-class exhibitions. Members of the English department have participated in exhibitions before. BC is also the home of a nationally-recognized program in Irish Studies, and the interdisciplinary journal Religion and the Arts.
M.A. and Ph.D. students receiving fellowships teach in the undergraduate classroom. The Morrissey College offers funds for travel to conferences for students giving professional papers, and students have the opportunity to organize the Biennial Graduate Conference.
Home to more than 35 colleges and universities, Boston is an intellectual and cultural hub unlike any other. Located six miles west of downtown, Boston College offers easy access to the wealth of academic talks and gatherings hosted on the city’s many campuses, as well as to the events hosted by historic bookstores and cultural institutions.
Boston College belongs to a consortium of universities, sharing library privileges with local universities such as Wellesley, Tufts, Brandeis, M.I.T., University of Massachusetts, and Boston University, as well as the opportunity to take graduate courses at several of these universities.
BC also participates in the Traveling Scholars Program of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at M.I.T, and faculty and students alike partake in seminars held at the Humanities Center at Harvard University.
Driven, reflective, and forward-thinking, our students are astute scholars who come from a variety of backgrounds.
English Department
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