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The faculty in English at
UCSB includes nationally prominent scholars working at the
forefront of current literary studies in a professionally
oriented research department. A recent national study places
the University of California with its nine campuses in a class
apart from all other public universities in the United States
for quality of research; the same study, ranking the scholarly
productivity of faculty in the humanities at all public research
institutions, places UCSB second only to Berkeley nationwide.
The graduate program in English
offers a balanced emphasis on scholarship, criticism, and
theory. It is especially strong in Medieval, Renaissance,
and eighteenth-century studies; in modern and American literature;
in literary theory, cultural criticism, culture of information,
interdisciplinary studies; and in gender studies and minority
literatures. The program is large enough to field a full range
of graduate seminars, but small enough to provide a sense
of community and a high level of faculty-student engagement.
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UCSB provides an exciting intellectual
environment in a setting of great natural beauty. The attractive
campus, overlooked by the Santa Ynez Mountains, lies on an
815-acre promontory jutting into the Pacific Ocean. The West
Campus, part of which is designated a natural preserve, contains
undeveloped, ecologically important dunes facing the Channel
Islands. Downtown Santa Barbara is 10 miles away; Los Angeles
less than two hours by car. The campus community currently
numbers about 18,000 students, of whom about 2,100 are graduate
students.
The city of Santa
Barbara offers a wide variety of theatrical and musical
productions, art and natural history museums, botanical and
zoological gardens, festivals, one of the nation's most dense
concentrations of shops and restaurants, and breathtaking
views of mountains, Spanish-style architecture, beaches, palms,
and sea.
For online application, visit
UCSB’s Graduate
Division home page.
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Desktop," which embeds news, features, and essential
links of interest to graduate students in a slightly wider
view of the department's activities and communities of interest.
For photographs of Graduate Events, visit our Graduate Photo Pages.
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