Welcome to the MA Program in Literary and Textual Studies of the English Department at Bowling Green State University. Our program enables graduate students to both understand and theorize the social functions of texts in a variety of cultural and intellectual contexts and to undertake critical literary analysis through a broad range of methods. It offers tools for textual and cultural analysis both within and outside the academy. Our Master's Program prepares students for advanced graduate work in numerous fields of study in the humanities, social sciences and arts.

Our faculty is made up of scholars and teachers whose research and teaching interests focus on a range of approaches to textual analysis such as deconstruction, feminism, queer theory and gender studies, new historicism, historical materialism, postcolonial studies, critical race theory, and psychoanalysis. Our Seminars in British and American Cultural Studies give students an opportunity to engage in exciting coursework focusing on a range of texts across historical periods as well as some of the most recent developments in literary studies and cultural/social theory in the field. In addition, opportunities exist for students to takes courses outside the department or program to complement their coursework, in order to provide an interdisciplinary edge. Students can take topics courses depending on their areas of interest, while at the same time receiving a foundation in research methods and literary theory; our program is both flexible and intellectually challenging.

The program affords students every opportunity to develop their own research projects and write significant scholarly MA theses based on their own unique interests. It also prepares students to participate in key scholarly discussions in a variety of settings. There are many opportunities for shared study with MA and Ph.D. students in American Culture Studies, Ethnic Studies and Popular Culture at BGSU as well.