Welcome

Welcome to the LMU Graduate English Department. The Department of English at Loyola Marymount University offers Master of Arts degrees in English with an Emphasis in Literature, Creative Writing, or Rhetoric and Composition. We are committed to the interdependency of literature, theory and writing. We believe that the act of engaging the literary field involves the production of literary, critical, or theoretical texts, and that broad-based reading in the tradition of literature provides the necessary foundation for more focused study and analysis. Therefore, we offer students in all emphases an introduction to graduate scholarship within a range of possible critical, rhetorical, and creative modes, while offering the intellectual background which makes their course of study both theoretically and historically self-conscious.

All three emphases within the M.A. program address the needs of a diverse student population; those going on to doctoral programs in literature, literary theory, or creative writing; those pursuing literary or commercial writing careers; those teaching in high schools and community colleges.

Dr. Stephen H.A. Shepherd
Program Director