University of Texas at Dallas
Texas, United States
Residential programAt most universities, the study of literature is divided across multiple departments and programs in English, comparative literature, and modern languages (e.g., Spanish, French, and German), and it is often seen as separate from the practice of creating or translating literature. At UT Dallas, however, the study of literature encompasses not only English literature but also the literatures of Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America— and we believe that scholarly and creative practitioners have a great deal to learn from one another. Indeed, the uniqueness of the Literature Program at UT Dallas lies in the fact that it brings together, in a single program, scholars, theorists, creative writers, and literary translators who share a commitment to transnational and interdisciplinary approaches to literary study and practice. The Literature Program at UT Dallas offers B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Literature; students in the B.A. in Literature have the option to pursue a concentration in creative writing, and students in the M.A. and Ph.D. programs can receive a Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing as well as a Graduate Certificate in Literary Translation.
Contact Information
800 West Campbell Road
JO 31
Richardson
Texas, United States
75080-3021
Phone: (972) 883-5412
Email: charles.hatfield@utdallas.edu
http://literature.utdallas.edu
Undergraduate Program Director
Manuel MartinezDirector of Creative Writing
800 West Campbell Road
JO 31
Richardson
Texas, United States
75080-3021
Email: manuel.martinez@utdallas.edu
URL: http://literature.utdallas.edu
Undergraduate Program Director
Manuel MartinezDirector of Creative Writing
800 West Campbell Road
JO 31
Richardson
Texas, United States
75080-3021
Email: manuel.martinez@utdallas.edu
URL: http://literature.utdallas.edu
Graduate Program Director
Manuel MartinezDirector of Creative Writing
800 West Campbell Road
JO 31
Richardson
Texas, United States
75080-3021
Email: manuel.martinez@utdallas.edu
URL: http://literature.utdallas.edu
In addition to seminars in literary criticism and theory, students can participate in creative writing and/or literary translation workshops and complete dissertations that consist of both creative and critical work. Students who focus primarily on creative writing or literary translation can obtain certification in those areas by applying to receive the Certificate in Creative Writing or the Certificate in Literary Translation.
Type of Program: Research/Theory/StudioLargest Class Size: 12
Smallest Class Size: 12
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Playwriting, Screenwriting, Criticism & Theory, Professional Writing (technical writing, PR, etc.), Literary Translation, Popular/Genre Fiction
In State Tuition 15088
Out of State Tuition 29252
Duration of Study: 2 years
Unit of Measure: Hours
Foreign Language: Proficiency Requirement
Application Deadline Fall: 02/01/2023
Application Requirements: Transcripts, Writing Sample, Application Form, Letters of Recommendation
Graduate Program Director
Manuel MartinezDirector of Creative Writing
800 West Campbell Road
JO 31
Richardson
Texas, United States
75080-3021
Email: manuel.martinez@utdallas.edu
URL: http://literature.utdallas.edu
Graduate Program Director
Manuel MartinezDirector of Creative Writing
800 West Campbell Road
JO 31
Richardson
Texas, United States
75080-3021
Email: manuel.martinez@utdallas.edu
URL: http://literature.utdallas.edu
Graduate Program Director
Manuel MartinezDirector of Creative Writing
800 West Campbell Road
JO 31
Richardson
Texas, United States
75080-3021
Email: manuel.martinez@utdallas.edu
URL: http://literature.utdallas.edu
Graduate Program Director
Manuel MartinezDirector of Creative Writing
800 West Campbell Road
JO 31
Richardson
Texas, United States
75080-3021
Email: manuel.martinez@utdallas.edu
URL: http://literature.utdallas.edu
Rainer Schulte
Most recent monograph, Traveling Between Languages: The Geography of Translation and Interpretation.
http://www.utdallas.edu/ah/people/faculty_detail.php?faculty_id=1051
Manuel Martinez
American Book Award Winner for novel, El Duros. PhD Stanford, formerly of The Ohio State University
Maurine Ogbaa
Maurine Ogbaa's creative work explores the experiences of African diasporic people in the U.S. and Nigeria. She earned a PhD in Literature at the University of Houston and an MFA-Fiction at Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has been published in AGNI, Prairie Schooner, Callaloo, third coast, and elsewhere.
https://profiles.utdallas.edu/maurine.ogbaa
Nomi Stone
Nomi Stone is an award-winning poet and anthropologist. Author of two full-length poetry collections, Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly 2008) and Kill Class (Tupelo 2019), a finalist for the Julie Suk Award, based on two years of fieldwork she conducted across the Middle East and America. Winner of a Pushcart Prize and a Fulbright, Stone’s poems appear recently in POETRY Magazine, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, and widely elsewhere. She has a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia, an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson, and an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford. A section from her third collection of poetry, Fieldworkers of the Sublime, was recently a finalist for the Bull City Press’s chapbook prize, and her first academic monograph (an Atelier Prize Finalist) Pinelandia: Human Technology and American Empire/ an anthropology and field-poetics of contemporary war is forthcoming (University of California Press, 2022).
https://profiles.utdallas.edu/nomi.stone
Sean Cotter
Sean Cotter is a translator and professor of literature and translation at the University of Texas at Dallas. A previous National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, Cotter is the translator of 11 books, including T.O. Bobe’s Curl and Nichita St?nescu’s Wheel with a Single Spoke and Other Poems, which was awarded the Best Translated Book Award for Poetry.
https://profiles.utdallas.edu/sean.cotter
