Course Listings
Explore English Department course offerings in Literature, Creative Writing, the Writing Program, and Journalism.
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, journalism, creative writing and medieval studies minors, scholarly lectures, readings by visiting writers, and other events, all of which give students a rich experience of the discipline of English.
News and Events
- Wake Forest Alum Mackenzie Kozak to Publish Award-Winning Poetry CollectionCongratulations to Mackenzie Kozack on her debut collection, no swaddle, which has been awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize and will be published in April 2025. We look forward to […]
- Our 2024 Doyle Fosso Scholarship RecipientsJoin us in congratulating Grace Ayzanoa, Hollis Comer, and Meg Campbell on their receipt of the Doyle Fosso Scholarship! These three talented and accomplished students are the inaugural recipients of […]
- The Dean Speaker Series Presents Dr. David Sterling Brown: “Hear Me, See Me”Dr. David Sterling Brown will join us on February 20, 2025 to present his talk “‘Hear Me, See Me’: Sex, Violence, Silence and Othello.” The event will be in the Z. […]
- Open for Submissions: 24-25 Academy of American Poets / Edwin G. Wilson Prize for Undergraduate PoetryThe Department of English invites students from every discipline to submit their original poetry to Wake Forest University’s Academy of American Poets / Edwin G. Wilson Prize. The Prize, which […]
- Voices across America Presentation September 26Elizabeth Hanks will visit campus on September 26 from 3 to 4 PM to give a presentation in Greene Hall room 239. This presentation introduces the design, sampling, and data […]