6.23	English, Film, Theatre

Department Head: Judith Owens
Graduate Chair: Mark Libin
Graduate Office: 623 Fletcher Argue Building
Telephone: (204) 474 7365
Fax: (204) 474 7669
Email: english@umanitoba.ca
Website: umanitoba.ca/arts/english

Academic Staff

Program Information
As a moderate-sized department, English is able to offer M.A. and Ph.D. programs covering a wide range of periods, genres, media, and theoretical approaches. Both scholarly and creative thesis options are offered for the M.A. In addition to teaching (at all levels), publishing, writing, editing, advertising, arts management, acting and entertainment, English graduates have worked in small businesses, corporations, government, the foreign service, research and development, public relations, fund-raising, filmmaking, the National Film Board, and many other areas.

One of the major strengths of the faculty is its commitment to teaching excellence, with three of its current members having been honoured with the University’s highest teaching award, and several others having been honoured with Merit Awards, Graduate Teaching Awards, and UMSU Certificates of Teaching Excellence. In keeping with this record, graduate student teachers have also won a number of the Teaching Excellence Awards offered by the Faculty of Arts since 1994.

Fields of Research
Students are welcome to consider all areas of literary specialization: Canadian literature, American literature, prairie literature, 20th-century literature, 19th-century literature, 18th-century literature, Milton, medieval literature, film, drama, theatre, post-colonial literature and theory, modern and post-modern literature, literary and critical theory, cultural and media studies, women's writing, and creative writing.

Research Facilities
University of Manitoba Libraries have extensive holdings in literature, film studies, and theatre. The Libraries provide access to both local and remote databases. Of note are the University of Manitoba Department of Archives and Special Collections and St. John's College Library. The Department of Archives and Special Collections has an extensive holding in Canadian literature. It is particularly good in Canadian prairie literature, the Archives’ holdings including a large and growing collection of prairie literary manuscripts.

The Canadian Literature Archive, a project of the Department of English, is an internet site which serves as a repository for information about Canadian writers, novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, Canadian literary organizations, magazines, publications, texts, and library archives. The Archive has been online since 1994.

Students are invited to join the Association of Graduate English Students (AGES). The association, which has recently been dramatically reanimated, organizes student publications, graduate colloquia, and other events. The department also operates a media lab and provides a reading room for student and faculty use.

M.A. in English

Admission
Admission requirements are those of the Faculty of Graduate Studies found in the Graduate Studies Regulations Section of this Calendar. Students with other degrees or backgrounds may be eligible for admission to a pre-Master's program to the satisfaction of the department. Contact the English Department for further information.

Application Deadlines
Applications of Canadian/U.S. students are to be received in the Department of English, complete with all supporting documentation, by January 5th. International students should submit their applications to the Department of English, complete with all supporting documentation, by November 1st.

Program Requirements
Minimum program requirements of the Faculty of Graduate Studies are found in the Graduate Studies Regulations Section of this calendar. Requirements for the M.A. degree in English can be met in one of two ways; either a thesis (critical or creative) and 18 credit hours of course work, of which 12 credit hours will normally be graduate English seminars; or a major paper and 30 credit hours of course work.

Second language reading requirement: Yes

Expected time to graduate: 2 years

Ph.D. in English

Admission
In addition to the minimum admission requirements of the Faculty of Graduate Studies found in the Graduate Studies Regulations Section of this calendar, applicants must normally hold an M.A. degree in English with a GPA of at least 3.5 in their work at the M.A. level.

Application Deadlines
Applications of Canadian/U.S. students are to be received in the Department of English, complete with all supporting documentation, by January 5th. International students should submit their applications to the Department of English, complete with all supporting documentation, by November 1st.

Program Requirements
Minimum program requirements of the Faculty of Graduate Studies are found in the Graduate Studies Regulations Section of this calendar. The first year of full-time Ph.D. study will normally include 18 credit hours, at least 12 credit hours of which should be graduate seminars in English literature. This program of studies will be arranged in consultation with the student's advisory committee at a meeting that will take place no later than one week before the start of classes.

Candidacy examinations, consisting of a paper on the student's period of specialization and a paper on the research area, will normally be written in the second year of Ph.D. study. Each paper will be followed by a one-hour oral examination.

Second language requirement: yes

Expected time to graduation: 4 years