PhD Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Joe Harrington, Megan Kaminski
Fiction: Kij Johnson, Laura Moriarty, Silvia Park
Playwriting: Darren Canady
The program offers full funding through graduate teaching assistantships and fellowships.
The program also offers a concentration in playwriting.
The program hosts the Visiting Writers Series. In addition, the university offers resources for research, including the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction; the History of Black Writing Project, which is currently being digitized; and the second-largest collection of Irish literature outside of Dublin at the Spencer Library and Archives.
Students complete their PhD in five years.
Jason Baltazar, Alyse Bensel, Danny Caine, Nino Cipri, Cyrus Console, DaMaris Hill, Denise Low, Mercedes Lucero, Tod Marshall, Kate Elizabeth Russell, Simone Savannah, Rebekah Taussig