English program provides a comprehensive program of graduate study in English, including core courses in literature and a rich array of electives covering the large area of academic study under the umbrella term English.

The department is able to support students wishing to develop research projects in each of the main periods of English and Scottish Literature - Medieval, Renaissance/Early Modern, Enlightenment, Romantic, and the 19th and 20th centuries - along with all genres of literary analysis: literary and critical theory, literary history, the history of the book, cultural studies, gender studies, postcolonial literature and American studies.