About the Program
The department offers graduate study leading to a Master of Arts in English for students who believe literature still matters—not as a museum piece, but as a living technology for decoding culture, media, politics, history, and the strange theater of everyday life. Our two-year program invites students into rigorous seminars, dynamic conversations, and ambitious research across literary studies, visual culture, theory, rhetoric, film, and transnational cultural production.
Students work closely with faculty, teach undergraduates, present at conferences, publish original scholarship, and develop the professional dexterity needed for academic, creative, nonprofit, and public-facing careers. Situated in the intellectual crossroads of the U.S.–Mexico border region, the program encourages critical inquiry that is both historically grounded and attuned to the urgencies of the present moment. In other words: we read deeply, think dangerously, and take culture seriously enough to argue with it.
Advising
The Interim Graduate Director is Professor William A. Nericcio.
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“This program met every expectation—the faculty presented unique course materials that represented decades of experience as well as an abiding interest in a diverse range of literary subjects.”
—Alan Traylor, English Instructor, Grossmont College