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

PhD 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 .

DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN ENGLISH

The English Department of the College of Humanities offers a doctor of philosophy degree in English, with areas of specialization in literature and language of the English-speaking Caribbean. The program prepares scholars, critics, and linguists who will contribute to the development of Caribbean studies as a field of academic knowledge within the context of higher education.

Requirements for Admission

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

Requirements for Graduation

Besides the general requirements for graduation from the Río Piedras Campus, students must:

Program of Study

The main field of the doctoral program in English is the literature and language of the English-speaking Caribbean. Complementary fields are studies in literary genres, language, and linguistics. INGL 6488, Literature, Language and Culture of the English-speaking Caribbean, is required of all entering students, regardless of their specialization in literature or linguistics.

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