The Ph.D. Program in English draws on the abundant resources of New York City and the CUNY colleges to provide exceptional and varied academic training in English literature, literary and critical theory, and cultural studies. Many of our faculty are affiliated with Certificate Programs, Institutes, and Interdisciplinary Committees at the Graduate Center, and are active members of various scholarly, creative, and pedagogical communities.

In 2010, the National Research Council ranked the Ph.D. Program in English among the top English doctoral programs in the country, in the company of Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Yale. Our Program received particularly high ratings in the areas of faculty publications, faculty awards, student support activities, and student diversity.