Ph.D. in Media, Art, & Text
This interdisciplinary Ph.D., a collaboration between the Department of English, the School of the Arts, and the School of Mass Communications, is a 42-credit program of core and elective courses, seminar experiences and creative work, and a strong research component in the form of a dissertation project and defense.
The MATX Ph.D. program focuses on new media while also retaining both an historical and a theoretical dimension by encouraging the reassessment of the production, dissemination, and employment of “traditional” literary texts, works of art, and other kinds of texts, while in turn studying how these texts function within specific settings informed by gender, ethnicity, race and other cultural factors. The course of study in the Ph.D. also extends its reach to film and new media, television and advertising, addressing the growing need for the study of virtual and visual texts. The MATX Ph.D. program is not limited to one department or discipline within the participating units. Rather, it breaks down “disciplinary walls” in order to cultivate the research possibilities available to students, allowing them to fashion new intellectual areas for the creation and dissemination of knowledge.
For complete information on the program and requirements for admission, see the Program Description.