English

Location:	Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences 6135 University Avenue Room 1186 P.O. Box 15000 Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Telephone:	(902) 494-6924
Fax:	(902) 494-2176
Website:	dal.ca/faculty/arts/english.html
Email:	gradengl@dal.ca

Programs Offered

English (MA, PhD)

Overview

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.

Our Graduate Programs are small and select: we take in eight to ten MA students per year, and about two to three 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.