I’m very pleased to announce that Ohio University’s graduate program in English Rhetoric and Composition is soliciting applications for 2024 admission. This comes after a couple of years of very limited recruiting as we re-evaluated our staffing and re-designed our program to better meet students’ needs. In the last two years we have hired four new NTT faculty with an exciting range of expertise and have just received approval for a tenure-track hire in Digital Rhetorics to start in fall 2024.
We’ve also just completed an overhaul of our graduate program which has resulted in higher stipends and a great deal more curricular flexibility for our graduate students. We’ve eliminated our foreign language requirement and created more space for students to pursue graduate certificates and to specialize their work outside of the Rhetoric and Composition core (e.g., many students have done hybrid degrees with our creative writing program).
We continue to welcome potential students from a wide variety of related fields who have developed a deep interest in writing and the teaching of it. Students without a background in Rhetoric & Composition will now have the option to complete additional coursework in the field if they choose. Our program has an outstanding placement record with recent PhD graduates receiving TT jobs at Andrews University, Hiram College, and Western Illinois U. Recent MAs have gone on to doctoral programs at U of Louisville, U of Maryland, Michigan State, and Purdue.
In order to answer questions (especially about all of these changes, since they can’t be displayed on our website until late spring or summer), we’re holding two online open house events:
Tuesday, December 5 from 8:00-9:00 PM EST
Friday, December 8 from 10:00-11:00 AM EST
Please email me directly at tiller for the video link. We’d be happy to talk about our program, the changes mentioned above, life in the vibrant college town of Athens, Ohio, and applying to graduate programs in general. Our application deadline is February 1. We do not require GRE scores and all of our students receive tuition waivers and stipends as Teaching Associates for first-year writing and other undergraduate classes.
Best,
Talinn Phillips
Talinn Phillips, PhD (she)
Professor of English Rhetoric & Composition
Co-Chair, Writing Through the Lifespan Collaboration
Series Co-Editor, Lifespan Writing Research | WAC Clearinghouse
Series Co-Editor, Practice, Pedagogy, and Programming for Graduate Communication | University of Michigan Press
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