All English MA students at Virginia Commonwealth University conduct original research under the direction of faculty. Some present the results of their directed studies before the department. The others defend theses before their faculty committees. Our graduate faculty offer students both expertise and flexibility.
Les Harrison, Director of the MA Program
Thom Didato, Graduate Programs Advisor
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British Virginia is a VCU-hosted series of scholarly editions of documents touching on the colony. These texts range from the 16th and 17th-century literature of English exploration to the 19th-century writing of loyalists and other Virginians who continued to identify with Great Britain. Editions appear principally in digital form, freely downloadable. [View Image]
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