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
Alumni spotlight: Cody Miller
January 08, 2020 English alumnus Cody Miller was awarded the Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2016.
New books from faculty to add to your winter break reading list
December 02, 2019 Discover the perfect book to cozy up with over winter break among a list of seven of the College of Arts and Humanities’ most recent faculty publications.
$3.4 million grant to help homeowners evaluate property risks
October 22, 2019 Dr. Sonia Stephens of English and Texts & Technology is part of the team developing the program. She is a co-principal investigator of the project.
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
