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Below are some examples of PhD orals lists that have been approved in our department in the last five years. Please do also see the official Orals Information and Guides page, which gives general information about how to go about choosing your orals lists and provides several long lists of suggested works.

While every list is constructed according to the student's particular interest, these lists should be helpful to first and second year students who are beginning to construct their own lists.

The example lists are available below as .pdf files, or you can download them all at once in a .zip file >>

Period:
Medieval
Renaissance, Renaissance 2
Eighteenth Century British
Nineteenth Century British
Victorian to Modern, Victorian to Modern 2
Comparative Modernism
British Twentieth Century
Anglophone Twentieth Century

American Colonial to 1855
American 1850 to 1950
American 1890 to 1980
American 1900 to 2000

Field:
Epic
Lyric, Lyric 2
Drama
Autobiography
Romance
Novel
History of Criticism
History of the Book
African American
Theory