Fellowships, Graduate Assistantships, and Adjunct Information

Fellowships and Graduate Assistantships

Details about these programs may be obtained from departmental graduate advisers.

Adjunct Information (For M.F.A. and M.A. English Students Only)

A very limited number of one-course adjunct and graduate assistant teaching positions, primarily in freshman composition (English 1010 and English 1012), may be available for applicants who have classroom teaching qualifications. If you wish to be considered, write directly to the department chair, Professor Ellen Tremper; include an up-to-date curriculum vitae and a one-page description of the way you would approach teaching such a course. Applicants without prior college teaching experience are encouraged to accept special department tutorial assignments, which may lead to actual teaching in subsequent semesters. Those teaching for us for the first time are generally required to enroll in English 7506, Practicum in Teaching College-Level Composition, which is offered in both the fall and spring semesters. This course is a practicum in the teaching of writing that is recommended for tutors as well.

Students who wish to teach while they are enrolled in the M.F.A. program, but who don’t have prior composition teaching experience at the college level, are required to take English 7506, Practicum in Teaching College-Level Composition. The course includes a tutor-internship in an instructor’s classroom. After completing English 7506, students may be assigned to teach their own section of composition, English 1010 or 1012. Students with relevant teaching experience are not required to take English 7506 but must wait until they have been accepted into the program before applying for these positions.

M.F.A. and M.A. applicants must wait until they have been accepted before applying for these positions.