The Department of English offers a program leading to the PhD degree in literatures in English. The department is small in numbers and its graduate students are carefully selected on the …

Graduate students take twelve courses over three years. One of these courses must be the departmental proseminar, usually taken in the student’s first semester; another must be an …

Research Interests: British Romanticism, late 18th- early 19th-century English literature, war studies, gender and genre, literature and violence

Christopher Grobe received his PhD in English from Yale University in 2011. His teaching and scholarship concern “performance” as both a mode of artistic practice and a source of social …

The Department of English offers graduate and undergraduate programs known especially for their training in attentive reading and the crafting of critical arguments.

Thank you for your interest in the PhD program in English literature at Johns Hopkins University. Information on the application process can be found on the Graduate Admissions website.

From 2011–24, he taught at Northwestern University, where he held appointments and affiliations in English, Comparative Literature, Spanish and Portuguese, and Environment, Policy and …

Graduate students must pass at least one translation exam at the level of fluency, or two at the level of competency. It is possible to take language courses here at Hopkins or, with …

Jeanne-Marie Jackson received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 2012, and joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2014. Her work attends to questions of comparative …

Born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, I did my PhD work in comparative literature at...