MA in English in Vancouver Canada | The University of British Columbia

The UBC English Graduate Program stands as one of Canada's most dynamic and diverse, granting M.A. degrees since 1919. Students can pursue studies in two distinct fields: English Literature and English Language. Notably, UBC's English Department is among the rare North American institutions that provide both linguistic and literary programs.

English Language

The Language program features concentrations in linguistic history and structure, discourse and genre studies, along with rhetorical history and theory. Faculty members guide research in areas like descriptive and historical linguistics, cognitive approaches, functional grammar, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, stylistic studies, genre research, and rhetorical theory. Literature students can enroll in Language courses, which have recently covered topics such as reported speech across genres, classical rhetoric's modern applications, and cognitive analyses of literary language. Conversely, Language students benefit from the department's extensive Literature course offerings.

English Literature

The Literature program spans British, North American, and global English literary traditions across various periods and genres. Faculty research explores diverse subjects including ecocritical approaches to Renaissance drama, transportation themes in Romantic poetry, media's influence on modernist writing, post-identity politics in Asian American literature, and war's traumatic effects in 20th-century Canadian, American, and British works. Graduate students may also engage with interdisciplinary programs at UBC, including Medieval Studies, Canadian and U.S. Studies, Sexuality Research, and Science and Technology Studies.