Students from across the world come to LA&PS to study in one of our 23 graduate programs. No matter whether you are a student working towards a graduate certificate, an MA, or PhD, or post-doctoral fellow, you have a home in the New College. The LA&PS graduate experience is intended to create a welcoming and supportive environment for you to complete your studies, while connecting you to the people, places and things that will launch you into your next chapter. We accomplish this through a mix of social, educational and skill building events and programs.
Welcome to the LA&PS Graduate Experience!
Whatever your needs may be, expect co-curricular support from orientation to convocation. We are here to help.
What We Offer
Graduate Resources
Professional development workshops, events, and more to support your grad school journey and help you make the most of your degree.
LA&PS Repository
We’re in the process of building an active repository of successful grant applications by LA&PS graduate students. Fully anonymized, these applications will provide a useful guide for current graduate students as they prepare their grant applications.
History & Affiliated Programs
Discover how New College was founded and learn about the principles it stands for in supporting you.
Interim College Head: Elicia Clements
Elicia Clements is associate professor in the Departments of Humanities and English. She has published extensively on the interdisciplinary connections between literature and music, including the monograph Virginia Woolf: Music, Sound, Language (U of T Press, 2019). She is co-editor of a collection of essays with Lesley J. Higgins titled Victorian Aesthetic Conditions: Pater Across the Arts published by Palgrave Macmillan (2010). More recently, chapters on Woolf and variation form can be found in the Routledge Companion to Music and Modernism (2022), on Walter Pater’s imaginary portraits in Reading Texts in Music and Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century (Boydel 2025), and on Ethel Smyth’s polemical writings in the forthcoming Cambridge Companion (2027) dedicated to the composer.
Current projects include a co-edited collection with Sarah Jensen, The Politics of Intermedial Modernisms (Routledge, August 2026), a book monograph titled Early Twentieth-Century Literary Musics with the aid of a SSHRC Insight Grant, and another book project also funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant that examines literary and musical remediation, Interventions in Early Twentieth-Century Opera. She enjoys teaching the second-year course for the Humanities core degree, HUMA 2001 Understanding Culture: Text, Image, Music, as well as upper-level undergraduate and graduate Humanities and English courses that focus on modernism and interdisciplinarity.
Having been in academic leadership positions at York since 2018 (Undergraduate Program Director followed by Chair of the Department of Humanities), she is looking forward to participating more directly in enhancing student life at York in this role that helps to support all LA&PS graduate students in addition to several undergraduate programs.
