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
- The Dean Family Speakers Series Presents Dr. David AlffOn March 2, 2026, Dr. David Alff will visit us from the University at Buffalo to give his lecture “How to Identify a Road in Seventeenth-Century England” for the Dean […]
- Medieval Studies Talk by Dr. Jennifer Lorden on November 11Dr. Jennifer Lorden, associate professor at William & Mary, will give a talk on Fiction and Belief in Early England on November 11th. The event will begin at 5:30pm in […]
- Holly Thompson Named the Storozynski Writer in Residence at Notre DameWe are excited to congratulate recent MA graduate Holly Thompson on her position as the 2025-2026 Storozynski Writer in Residence at Notre Dame University Reilly Center. The Storozynski Writing Fellowship, […]
- Author Curtis Chin Public Lecture on October 20Curtis Chin is the author of the memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant. A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, he has written for CNN, Bon Appétit, and […]
- 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 […]