RESOURCES

Teacher Certification
It is also possible for students in the English M.A. program to obtain teacher certification in English by taking some additional courses and completing the supervised teaching practicum or its equivalent in the university’s Graduate College of Education.

Recent Final Projects and Theses

• Unique Criseyde: An Analysis of Ethics, Agency, and Moral Teachings in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde
• Love, Genius, and the Factory: The Muse of Ellen Johnston, “The Factory Girl” Poet
• Queer Hysteria: Nella Larsen and the Fictive Virtue of Her Own Reason
• Forging a Hero: The Value of Labor in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry
• Mediation and the Implications for Social Meaning-
• Making and Pedagogy in the Emergent Technology of Weblogs
• Modern Kurdish Poetry and Farhad Shakely’s “String,”
  a translation
• “Building Heaven,” a novel
• “Belladonna,” a collection of poetry

Teaching Assistantships
A separate application form must be filled out if you are interested in applying for a teaching assistant position. Contact englishma.program@umb.edu for an application form and for deadline information.

Contact Us
Director, English M.A. Program
Department of English
University of Massachusetts Boston,
100 Morrissey Blvd.,
Boston, MA 02125-3393
Phone: 617-287-6702
englishma.program@umb.edu