In the wake of 2020, responding to changes in the world and in academic job markets, Brandeis’s English faculty decided to change the structure and requirements of their PhD program. Among these ...

“I want to be coachable, but not a doormat.” That was a comment I heard during a recent conversation with a doctoral student who was describing an experience they had with their dissertation chair.

For sixth-year English PhD student Yi He, teaching and learning are intertwined. For her dissertation, not only is she writing a series of essays about her research topic, Puritan media; she’s also ...

I never had a dissertation defense. My department had abolished them sometime before I arrived as a graduate student, and I considered myself lucky compared with friends at other universities who had ...

Are you working on online education programs at your school? Have you interacted with an online program management company as part of this work? If the answers are yes to both of these questions, I ...

Each American Studies major completes a capstone project during the final spring semester of study. Students develop these projects in the Senior Seminar class, working closely with the seminar's ...

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What makes a good introduction for a dissertation? Graduate students practice critiquing one another’s thesis chapters, but they rarely read the introductions — usually because those are written to ...

Here are some perspectives from different professors across the College of Arts & Sciences: Writing an honors thesis is an opportunity to make your own education. To pursue an idea or interest that ...