Financial Aid and Support
Teaching Assistantships:
An applicant accepted into the Master's or Doctoral Programs is eligible for funding as a Teaching Assistant, provided we receive the application before February 1st. Funding is then awarded on a competitive basis.
Funding for Master's degree students is for two years and carries a yearly stipend of $13,500. A first-year MA student normally tutors in the Writing Center both semesters and teaches 1 course in the spring. He or she then teaches 3 courses the following year.
Funding for Doctoral degree students is normally for 5 years and carries a yearly stipend of $16,000. A PhD student normally teaches 3 courses a year for the first three years of the program and then teaches 4 courses a year thereafter.
Summer school teaching opportunities are also available for additional remuneration.
There are a number of different teaching and administrative opportunities available for teaching assistants at various levels in the English graduate program. Some of these include:
writing courses (available to advanced PhD students with appropriate fields of
expertise)
For more information about these positions please consult the Graduate Handbook.
Dissertation Fellowships
The Arthur Adrian Dissertation Fellowship provides a full year of funding for one qualified doctoral student each year. This prize includes a year's stipend (approx. $16,000) and tuition credits. At the discretion of the Graduate Committee, the award may be given to two students, each whom will receive one semester of funding ($8,000) and tuition credit.
The Roger B. Salomon Dissertation Fellowship customarily provides a full semester funding for one qualified doctoral student. This prize includes a semester's stipend (approx. $8,000) and tuition credits. This fellowship is offered approximately every second year.
Each spring semester, the Director of Graduate Studies will issue a call for nominations among the faculty to recommend students with writing promising dissertation projects.
The basic criterion is that the student must have had his or her dissertation prospectus approved by the dissertation committee by the end of the nominating term.
The designation of both fellows occurs at the same time by a subcommittee of the Graduate Committee comprised (when possible) of faculty other than the nominee's advisor.
Recipients of the Adrian and Salomon Dissertation Fellowships are released from their departmental teaching/administrative responsibilities for the award period. In addition, they cannot accept overload teaching or tutoring for the university during their award period, and they are expected to avoid employment outside the university in order to devote attention to their scholarship.
The Graduate Committee reserves the right not to award any or either fellowship in any given year.