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
30 CAH faculty members receive promotion or tenure this year
April 07, 2020 This year, 30 CAH faculty members received promotion or tenure to celebrate their successes.
Announcing the Gloria Anzaldúa Research Excellence Award winners
April 07, 2020 This research excellence award stipend supports individuals pursuing advanced research near completion and of value to women’s and gender scholars.
LIFE at UCF honors Terry Thaxton for impactful initiative
April 03, 2020 UCF’s Learning Institute for Elders (LIFE) is honoring English professor Terry Thaxton for her work with the Literary Arts Partnership.
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
