Recent and upcoming graduate course offerings include: Introduction to Research; Methods of Research; Literature of the United States to 1865; Feminist Theory; Victorian Literature; Teaching for Social Justice; Irish Postcolonial Literature; Contemporary US Women's Poetry; Shakespeare; Comparative Medieval Literature; Short Eighteenth Century; American-Jewish Literature; Postcolonial Literature & Theory; Arthurian Romance; African American Literature; Nineteenth Century British Women Readers and Writers; Social and Cultural Theory and Criticism; Privacy Law and American Modernism; Literature and Human Development; Twentieth-Century Irish Poetry; Shakespeare.

In addition to selecting seminars in the English Department, graduate students in consultation with their advisers are free to take courses in a variety of disciplines, including the departments of History, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. Those interested in literary and cultural theory find ample resources in the Department of Philosophy, which is particularly strong in twentieth-century philosophy.