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The M.A. Program in English Language and Literature at Eastern Mediterranean University was established to enable exceptional students to pursue their literary, critical and philosophical research interests with highly qualified and experienced international faculty in an innovative, modern curriculum unique in the Middle East and Mediterranean regions. The Program is designed to provide solid foundations in traditional literary scholarship, while at the same time taking into account the most contemporary developments in the field, such as the understanding of the importance of philosophy and critical theory for the proper study of literature, and the realization that the field itself is interdisciplinary, drawing on and contributing to the insights of such varied disciplines as art, film, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, history and law. The aim of the Program is thus to provide students with the most modern education in literature and related humanistic disciplines, and to encourage creative and original research by allowing each student the maximal opportunity to pursue his or her fields of special interest. In addition to attending regular courses, which take the form of seminars, students also develop close working relationships with faculty during thesis guidance. Thesis guidance, which forms part of the preparation for the thesis, enables a student to pursue individual, independent courses of readings and research in his or her chosen field of interest, working with a professor who has similar or related interests. The curriculum thus provides a solid foundation in literary and cultural studies for graduates who wish to teach or to continue their research at the Ph.D. level.
Admission Requirements
General admission requirements of the Institute are expected. The department may require applicants coming from a different field to take at most 4 courses from the undergraduate curriculum as deficiency courses. The number of deficiency courses an applicant needs to take and what these courses should be is determined by the graduate committee of the department.
Faculty Research Interests
Literary theory, Cultural studies, Irish and british modernism, American literature, Modern drama, literature and consciousness, Cross-cultural communication, postcolonialism, Colonialism, World literature, English romanticism, Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Ancient greek philosophy, Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics.
American literature, literary theory, modern drama, cross-cultural communication, literature and consciousness. Postcolonialism, colonialism, Subversion and containment in Shakespeare and other Elizabethan Drama. Heresy, Ottoman Intellectual History, Islamic Philosophy, Abdul Gazalli, Ottoman Naval History, Suphism. Byzantine History, Late Antiquity (Mediterranean), Early Medieval Urbanism, Early Islamic History.
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