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 undergraduate and graduate programs.
English in the News
English student receives Order of Pegasus
February 20, 2020 English student Taylor Pryor is one of 24 students to receive UCF’s most prestigious student award, Order of Pegasus.
A Look Back at the Start of UCF’s Black Student Union
February 04, 2020 UCF alumni Roland Williams and Wiletha Williams share their experience as some of the university’s first students.
English faculty Micah Dean Hicks named 2020 NEA Creative Writing fellow
January 28, 2020 Department of English faculty member Micah Dean Hicks has been named a 2020 NEA Creative Writing fellow.
Faculty Bookshelf
Tison Pugh
Chaucer's Losers, Nintendo's Children, and Other Forays in Queer Ludonarratology. University of Nebraska Press, 2019
Chrissy Kolaya
Other Possible Lives: poems. KY: Broadstone Books, 2019.
Jake Wolff
The History of Living Forever. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019.
Micah Dean Hicks
Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones. MA: John Joseph Adams Books-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
Christian Beck
Spatial Resistance: Literary and Digital Challenges to Neoliberalism. NY: Lexington Books, 2019.
Fayeza Hasanat
The Bird Catcher and Other Stories. Jaded Ibis Press, 2018. (Bangladesh edition; Bengal Lights Publishers, 2018).View more
