MFA Graduate Studies
Thank you for your interest in our graduate programs at the University of Montana. The Department of English offers a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing. Our students are guided by a distinguished and dedicated faculty, who offer not only intellectual challenges in the classroom but also mentoring with such issues as publication, conference presentations, the job search, etc. As committed to research as they are to engaged teaching, our faculty continues to develop an impressive and innovative publication record, whether it is evidenced through our critically–acclaimed creative writers or through the scholarly production of our faculty working in Composition & Rhetoric and Literature & Critical Theory.
The students often find themselves together in graduate seminars joined by students from the Department of Modern Classical Languages and Literatures, Environmental Studies, or Environmental Philosophy, resulting in an interdisciplinary sensibility in the classroom as well as close relationships among students across disciplines. All graduate students will find ours to be a lively intellectual community, and they will also enjoy the collegiality and close student–faculty relationships that characterize our Department. They will be encouraged to take part in a variety of departmental events, will occasionally be appointed to committees involved with departmental governance, and will have the opportunity to present their work at such events as our Second Wind Reading series and at the annual Graduate Student and Faculty Conference.
More Information
To learn more about our program, please visit our course offerings archives, the faculty profiles that will reveal the range of research and teaching interests offered by our faculty, our Faculty Bookshelf, and the Creative Writing Webpage. Please feel free, as well, to contact individual program directors.