Department of English

Welcome!

The Department of English brings together scholars committed to the study of language, literature, and writing. Our graduates are prepared for a variety of professional and educational endeavors, including careers in law, editing and publishing, teaching, corporate and not-for-profit management, consulting, information technology, and graduate study in English and other disciplines. Students of English learn to read accurately, write clearly, and think analytically in the department's first-year composition program, B.A. in English, and in four graduate programs.

Highlights

June 2009

photoUniversity of Central Florida English professor Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés will hold a booksigning for her latest work, "Marielitos, Balseros and Other Exiles," about Cuban-American exiles at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 11, at UrbanThink! [Read More]

May 2009

Master’s in Literature alumna Mandy Mahaffey, Master’s in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies student Jessica Masri, and undergraduate English student Corrinne Woods, formed a panel entitled “Time/lessness in The Last Unicorn” at the 30th International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts (International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts), March 18–21, 2009 in Orlando, Florida. [Read More]

Recent Faculty Publications

J.D. Applen

Publication Image Applen, J.D., and Rudy McDaniel. The Rhetorical Nature of XML. New York: Routledge, 2009.

Fayeza Hasanat

Publication Image Nawab Faizunnesa’s RupJalal (Translation and Commentary). Leiden : E. J. Brill Publishers, 2009

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