Course Listings
Explore English Department course offerings in Literature, Creative Writing, and the Writing Program.
Why English?
English majors and minors develop valuable wisdom and skills and successfully pursue careers in a wide range of fields.
Faculty
Learn more about the English Department faculty’s teaching interests as well as their research and creative specialties.
Faculty News
Our faculty accomplishments include published books, articles, and creative work, conference presentations, and awards and recognition.
Dean Family Speaker Series
The Dean Family Speaker Series brings nationally and internationally recognized scholars to present their research to students and faculty.
Dillon Johnston Writers Series
The Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series brings emerging and established poets, fiction, and creative non-fiction writers to campus.
When you study literatures in English, you engage with works of significant cultural and aesthetic value, wrestle with important philosophical questions, reconstruct histories of past times and places, and develop in writing your own critical and creative voice. We offer a diverse range of courses, a graduate program, an honors program, and creative writing, interdisciplinary writing, and medieval studies minors. Scholarly lectures, readings by visiting writers, and other events all give students a rich experience of the discipline of English.
News and Events
- Professor Waddell to Speak on “Orwell’s Bullies” on October 8thJoin us on October 8th for a talk by Professor Nathan Waddell on “Orwell’s Bullies”! This event will take place at 5:00 PM in ZSR Library Room 404, and will […]
- Vermont Cartoonist Laureate Tillie Walden to Speak During Homecoming WeekVermont Cartoonist Laureate Tillie Walden joins us for the Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series to present a look at the intersection of indie comics with queer identity through her many graphic […]
- Professor Emerita Claudia Thomas Kairoff has passed awayThis article was originally posted by Wake Forest University April 8, 2025 The University recently learned that Professor Emerita Claudia Thomas Kairoff passed away on Friday, April 4. Claudia […]
- Dr. Amy Catanzano’s New Book Published at University of Michigan PressWe are happy to share that Professor Amy Catanzano’s new book, The Imaginary Present: Essays in Quantum Poetics, is now available! The book is published in the […]
- Pulitzer Prize Recipient Rae Armantrout to give Poetry Reading for Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series on April 9thJoin us on April 9th at 5:00PM in Annenberg Auditorium, Carswell Hall, for a poetry reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout. This event is free and open to the […]