The Graduate Program in English only admits students to the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program. She was also a world citizen, present for the founding of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919 and the United Nations in 1945. The English Department is proud to house Harvard’s creative writing program. GSAS's physical spaces are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic: GSAS staff are working remotely and can be reached by email. The destination wasn’t Hoffman’s choice but rather her husband’s (who seems oblivious to the enormity of his request). She writes of her first experience of deer hunting (in her early 80s, with her son). It is important to have strong letters of recommendation from professors who are familiar with candidates’ academic work. Unspecified Shirlee Sky Hoffman (AM ’68, history) was born in 1945, which explains the title of her collection of poetry and prose, First Generation Singular (CreateSpace, 2016). Can podcasts do the work of literary criticism? The Statement of Purpose is not a personal statement and should not be heavily weighted down with autobiographical anecdotes. GSAS's physical spaces are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic: GSAS staff are working remotely and can be reached by email. For more information visit our canvas site: Education: M.A., Jesus College, Cambridge (1988). Biblical humor isn’t laugh-out-loud funny but more a matter of storytelling techniques, such as exaggeration, satire, jarring juxtaposition, and trickery (or tricksters). The GRE General and Subject Tests are not required as part of the English PhD application process. The English Department Guidelines for Admissions provide answers to many initial questions and program requirements. Concentrators may also apply to work on a year-long creative senior thesis with our faculty. 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Recommenders should comment not only on the applicant’s academic readiness for our PhD program but also on the applicant’s future potential as teachers and scholars. MAP IT. More information is available from the Department of English. The English Language E-mail gsaa@fas.harvard.edu. Still, you can improve your odds of being one of the “new John Henrys” (hopefully, one of greater longevity). Raised in working-class Manchester, Ellen took a ballistic trajectory from childhood. Thus, when the Canaanite woman asks Jesus to heal her daughter, he rebuffs her (twice), declaring that his mission extends “only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel,” then adding that he mustn’t “take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.” The woman, however, is clever and brings Him around: Jesus does heal her daughter. Whether probing Harlem Renaissance literature or changing census definitions of race, Soto’s concern is the sources of racial identity, whether imposed, resisted, or embraced. Criticism and Theory Open to the Harvard community. The program also emphasizes the ability to write well, to do solid and innovative scholarly and critical work in a specialized field or fields, to teach effectively, and to make articulate presentations at conferences, seminars, and symposia. 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 350 And she probes the onion-like layers of meaning and deception in family photographs. The writing samples must be examples of critical writing (rather than creative writing) on subjects directly related to English. GSAS regrets that applicants cannot use Interfolio or other recommendation dossier services; recommenders must use the GSAS online recommendation system to submit letters of recommendation. She made speaking tours of the United States and joined fact-finding missions to Northern Ireland, Germany, and Colonial India. 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Applicants should not send longer papers with instructions to read an excerpt or excerpts, but should edit the samples themselves so that they submit only fifteen pages for each paper. Thus, e-discovery programs undercut the need for associates at large law firms; computer-assisted design eliminates entry-level blueprint-copying work at architecture firms; and computerized trading has cut the number of traders at the New York Stock Exchange from 5,500 in 1980 to about 500 today. GSAS's physical spaces are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic: GSAS staff are working remotely and can be reached by email. The Graduate Program in English aims to provide PhD candidates with a broad knowledge of the field of English, including critical and cultural theory. Those who do not should at least attempt to define the questions and interests they foresee driving their work over the next few years. The vital presence of creative writing in the department is reflected by our many distinguished authors who offer small, intensive workshops each term in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, screenwriting, playwriting, and … What makes story-telling in podcasts different from other kinds of story-telling? Eat, Live, Love, Die includes an appreciation of the lowly hamburger and insightful discussions of, for example, hominy, beefsteak, and oysters, the latter interweaving natural history, the economics of oyster farming, and regional oyster dishes with a tip of the hat to Lewis Carroll’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter.” But her most personal and deeply resonant pieces address an altogether different nexus of family and memory. While there are no specific prerequisites for admission, a strong language background helps to strengthen the application, and students who lack it should be aware that they will need to address these gaps during their first two years of graduate study.