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.

Highlights

English students’ literary research published in The Pegasus Review

Technical communication student Kennedy Harkins and English alumna Ivy McKay ’17 had their research [...]

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Technical communication blends passions, paves way for student success

For student Andrea Romero, success can be found through the English Department’s technical communication [...]

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Call for Papers for Identities Remixed: 8th Annual UCF English Graduate Symposium

The Department of English calls for papers for the 8th Annual UCF English Graduate Symposium on April 5, [...]

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Events

Reading and Q&A with novelist Anna Levi

Monday, February 4, 2019; 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones -- Book Launch

Thursday, February 7, 2019; 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Bonnie Jo Campbell Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing

Monday, February 25, 2019; 6:00pm - 7:30pm

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Recent Faculty Publications

Tison Pugh

The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018. 

Pat Rushin

Quantum Physics & My Dog Bob (short story collection).  Orlando: Burrow Press, 2017.

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