Admissions
All applicants enter the program as PhD students. We do not award a terminal M.A. All incoming graduate students are fully funded through a tuition waiver and a fellowship. There is no specific grade point or GRE score required for admission to the PhD program, but we look for high achievement in a range of undergraduate English courses and in at least one paper submitted to us as a writing sample.
The department’s internal deadline for admission is January 8, 2010. It is preferred that you apply to the PhD program online at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences homepage (http://artsci.wustl.edu/GSAS/) and follow specific instructions.
Should you choose to send a hard copy, the following should be sent to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (address follows):
- application
- $45 application fee
- GRE scores (both the General Test and Subject Test)
- Please use the following codes: WU = 6929; E Lit = 250
Send the above to:
Office of the Dean
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Washington University
Campus Box 1187
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
The Department requires the following sent to Kathy Schneider (kschneid@wustl.edu) or to the address below:
- statement of purpose describing your motivation and goals (attached to email)
- transcript(s) of previous work (sent from Undergraduate/Graduate programs)
- 3 letters of recommendation (on or attached to Washington University forms, but we will accept dossiers from college placement services or attached to email)
- a recent paper on a literary subject (attached to email)
Department of English
Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1122 (attn: K. Schneider)
One Brookings Drive
St Louis, MO 63130
To request an information and application packet from the English department online, click here.