English Department
The English Department at FSU is a nationally ranked program which encompasses many majors and produces a number of journals such as the Kudzu Review and The Journal of Early Modern Studies. Comprising a wide range of topics, the faculty includes winners of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Endowment of the Arts, Fullbright, and Newberry Library Fellowship.
Literature Program The Literature Program in the English Department at Florida State offers a BA, MA, and Ph.D. The literature faculty is notable for the diversity of its approaches to literary study, its expertise crossing literary criticism innovatively with a spectrum of extra-literary fields: from animal studies in the Renaissance to piracy, rock n' roll, ethnographies of the American south, and the science of reading. The faculty is setting agendas in a number of fields, including Shakespeare and Early Modern studies, where Florida State has concentration of some of the most exciting scholars in the country, as well as in Beckett studies and Modernism. The nationally-recognized History of Text Technologies Program (HoTT) extends from the History of the Book to Digital Humanities as a means of exploring how the history of the forms of texts is also a history of human culture in its largest sense, a history that speaks to how we use texts to establish ways of thinking, means of knowing, and practices of living. Other programs and areas of exploration, such as Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, African American Studies, Caribbean Studies, and Performance Studies, include interdisciplinary components that weave together fields as diverse as Archaeology, Art and Architectural History, Language and Literature, Manuscript Studies, Music, and Musicology. The faculty are leaders in interdisciplinary certificate programs in Critical Theory as well as in Publishing and Editing. The Critical Theory Certificate combines studies in literature and culture with a broad range of philosophical approaches that draw from other fields such as Art History, Film, Religion, and Modern Languages. This program is designed to ensure that students have access to the most recent and cutting-edge scholarship in a number of fields. The Literature Program also offers classes in university-wide inter-disciplinary graduate and undergraduate programs, including Middle Eastern Studies, Human Rights, Women's Studies, and Humanities and Science.
Creative Writing Program The Creative Writing program in the English Department at Florida State is home to recipients of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The 2007 special fiction issue of The Atlantic Monthly placed FSU's Creative Writing Program as one of the Top 10 Graduate Programs in Creative Writing as well as one of the Top Five Ph.D. Programs in Creative Writing in the country. FSU offers both Masters of Fine Arts and doctoral degrees in Creative Writing. The program claims no university Creative Writing program in the world has been included more often in the Harcourt Trade Publishers Best New American Voices. Recent graduates have published books with Hyperion, Norton, Viking, MacAdam/Cage, Penguin, Henry Holt, Simon & Schuster, and Houghton Mifflin. Students have published in The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The Georgia Review, Glimmer Train, Harper's, Ploughshares, and many other quality magazines. Students have the chance to work both for a publisher (FC2) and for the program's official journal The Southeast Review.
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