Graduate Studies

Graduate study at uWaterloo English offers a broad range of options. Our MAs in Literary Studies, Rhetoric and Communication Design, and Experimental Digital Media allow you to focus on a specific area of intellectual, artistic, or professional interest while developing a broad base of knowledge in other critical fields. You can also take your MA as a co-op degree, mixing study and work experience.

Our PhD program will make you an agile scholar with expertise in multiple fields. If you want to work in the academy after your degree, our program has an enviable placement rate. If you want to continue on elsewhere, our graduates' unique combination of knowledge and skills makes them sought after in business, industry, and the non-profit sector.

The department's faculty are internationally known scholars and innovative teachers whose research areas range from Middle English literature to postcolonial studies and from classical rhetoric to video game design. No matter what your interests, our professors will foster your development as a researcher and teacher. Our graduate students are a vibrant, active community who organize their own academic events and present their research at national and international conferences.