FACULTY OF HUMANITIES

Department of English

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

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

Fax : (787) 763-5899

DEGREE OFFERED

MA in English

FACULTY

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

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.
19 th century British fiction; women’s literature; cultural studies; postcolonial theory .

Mark Pedreira , PhD, University of Maryland, 1994, Associate Professor.
17 th and 18 th 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; 19 th century American literature .

Alfonso Rubiano, MA, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, 1969; Professor,
Literary translation; poetry.

Reinhard Sander , PhD, University of Texas, 1979, Professor.
Caribbean studies; African and African-American literature; colonial, 18 th and 19 th 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 , EdD, InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico, 1987, Professor.
Bilingualism; ethnolinguistics .

Anthony R. Slagle, PhD, 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.
20 th Century US literatures; Caribbean Studies; US Latino studies; Cultural studies; Postcolonial studies.

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

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

Candidates for the master’s degree must fulfill all the requirements for graduation from the Río Piedras Campus. In addition, they must:

*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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