For current Teaching and Project Assistant salary figures check the Graduate School's current stipend page . These awards are renewable for up to two years at the Master's level and five years at the Doctoral level. Unlike many other English graduate programs, UWM's English Department encourages TAs to design and teach 200-level literature, film, and writing courses after the first year of employment. Graduate Project Assistantship positions are also occasionally available, especially for students in the areas of Creative Writing, Rhetoric and Composition, and Modern Studies. Graduate Project Assistantships carry a smaller stipend than that of a Teaching Assistantship, but provide tuition remission and health insurance.
PAs generally work twenty hours per week and are required to register for six credits.
Interested applicants who have been accepted into the program should contact the Graduate Office during the spring semester prior to their fall admission date. This English Department award was set up in the name of Professor James. Each year, the English Department honors the best paper written by a graduate student with the Frederick J. Hoffman Award. Three anonymous copies should be submitted, with a cover letter, to the English Graduate Office.