FACULTY OF HUMANITIES

Department of English

Address: P.O. Box 23356, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-3356

Telephone: (787) 764-0000, exts. 3828, 2553, 3797

Fax: (787) 763-5899

Web address: http://humanidades.uprrp.edu/ingles

DEGREE OFFERED

MA in English

FACULTY

Diane Accaria Zavala, PhD, New York University, 1994, Professor.
Modernism; film and literature; Native American studies; 19th and 20th century American literature

Ann Albuyeh, PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1985, Professor.
Historical linguistics; psycholinguistics; ethnolinguistics

Ian A. Bethell, PhD, University of Warwick, England, 2002, Associate Professor.
Caribbean literature and culture; British literature

Frances M. Bothwell, PhD, Florida State University, 1980, Professor.
18th and 19th century British literature; Shakespeare

Loretta Collins, PhD, University of Iowa, 1999, Associate Professor.
Performance studies; postcolonial theory; creative writing; Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American studies

James P. Conlan, PhD, University of California, Riverdale, 1999, Associate Professor.
Medieval and Renaissance literature; textual criticism; early New World travel narrative

Robert Dupey, PhD, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras (2006). Assistant Professor.
Comparative text analysis; narrative discourse; writing and research; code switching; phonology/phonetics

Nicholas Faraclas, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1989, Associate Professor.
Syntax; Creole languages

Lowell Fiet, PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1973, Professor.
Modern drama; performance studies; Caribbean studies

Emily Krasinski, PhD, University of the West Indies, Jamaica, 1989, Professor.
Language acquisition; Creole studies; contrastive analysis

Dannabang Kuwabong, PhD, McMaster University, 1997, Associate Professor.
Creative writing; oral traditions; women’s poetry; diaspora studies

Nalini Natarajan, PhD, University of Aberdeen, 1983, Professor.
19th century British fiction; women’s literature; cultural studies; postcolonial theory

Christopher Olsen, PhD,University of Maryland 2000, Assistant Professor.
Theater history, theory, and criticism; intercultural theater; semiotics; African performance, contemporary British and American theater

Mark Pedreira, PhD, University of Maryland, 1994, Associate Professor.
17th and 18th century British literature; literary criticism; lexicography; textual criticism; rhetoric

Alicia Pousada, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1984, Professor.
Language planning; sociolinguistics; comparative language studies.

Yolanda Rivera Castillo, PhD, University of California, Davis, 1994, Professor.
General linguistics; syntax; phonology; Creole languages

Carmen Haydée Rivera Vega, PhD, Northeastern University, 2001, Associate Professor.
Latino/a literature; ethnic literatures of the United States; diaspora and women’s studies

María Cristina Rodríguez, PhD, City University of New York, 1979, Professor.
Caribbean studies; women’s literature; comparative studies in fiction; film theory and literary criticism

María Soledad Rodríguez, PhD, Princeton University, 1988, Professor.
Women’s literature; Caribbean studies; 19th century American literature

Reinhard Sander, PhD, University of Texas, 1979, Professor.
Caribbean studies; African and African-American literature; colonial, 18th and 19th century American literature

Marc Schnitzer, PhD, University of Rochester, 1971, Professor.
Neurolinguistics; psycholinguistics; phonology; contrastive analysis; language acquisition

Michael Sharp, PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1985, Professor.
Romanticism; Victorian literature and ideas; poetry

Alma Simounet, Ed.D, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, 1987, Professor.
Bilingualism; ethnolinguistics

R. Anthony Slagle, PhD, The Ohio State University, 1998, Associate Professor.
Cultural studies; queer theory and gender studies; postmodern theory; social and political thought; rhetorical theory and criticism

Maritza Stanchich, PhD, University of California Santa Cruz, 2003, Assistant Professor.
20th century US literatures; Caribbean Studies; US Latino studies; cultural studies; postcolonial studies

Richard Swope, PhD, University of West Virginia, 2001, Associate Professor.
20th century American and contemporary fiction; literary criticism and theory

Richard Weinraub, PhD, University of Oregon, 1982, Professor.
Poetry; creative writing; 19th and 20th century literature; 17th century English poetry

MASTER’S PROGRAM

Requirements for Admission

Besides the general requirements for admission to graduate studies at the Río Piedras Campus, candidates must satisfy the following requirements:

Requirements for Graduation

Cumplir con los requisitos generales para graduación vigentes en el Recinto de Río Piedras. Además, los estudiantes deberán cumplir con los requisitos específicos del programa:

Program of Study

*Students who can demonstrate mastery of skills and knowledge of the information covered in this course may be exempted from this requirement. The evaluation criteria are as follows: (1) a grade of A in INGL 3291-92 Research and Composition for the English Major, or equivalent courses, (2) passing a diagnostic examination administered by the English Department.

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