Studying and teaching language and literature since 1865.
The Department of English at Dalhousie University is one of the oldest in Canada. It has been in operation since 1865, when the first Professor of Rhetoric, James de Mille, was appointed. The Department awarded its first Master's degrees in 1903, and its first PhD in 1973. The Department of English currently has twenty three full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty.
Our Graduate Programs are small and select: we take in about fifteen MA students per year, and about three or four new doctoral students. There are thus up to thirty current graduate students with workspace in the Department in a given year. Students are attracted to our graduate programs by the research and teaching strength of our faculty as well as the intimacy and collegiality of the department. They know that, at Dalhousie, they will be able to take the seminars they want, have personal, supportive relationships with their colleagues and advisors, and develop and pursue in depth their own scholarly interests. Recent M.A. and Ph.D. students have come to us from universities across Canada, including the universities of Victoria, Toronto, Ottawa, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba as well as Queen’s, McGill, and Concordia; others have come from programs in the United States, the United Kingdom, Serbia and India.
Our Undergraduate Program has been designed to allow students to develop a sense of the shape and scope of English, the allure of its many aspects, the kinds of questions it raises, the reality of its contact with the world. Our curriculum, through a series of period requirements and a necessary focus on close reading, theory, or literary criticism, is designed to convey the historical depth and richness of literature in English and to pass on the basic techniques of the discipline for considering literature critically. At the same time, we are fully committed to representing and advancing new areas of, and approaches to, scholarship and teaching. We want our programs to embody the contemporary, as well as the historic richness of the language, new as well as established ways of considering the study of texts
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