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

  • Voices across America Presentation September 26
    Elizabeth 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 […]
  • Study Abroad in London Summer 2025
    Join us in London this summer from May 27 to June 28 for Literature of the Witch, co-taught by Dr. Joanna Ruocco and Dr. Sarah Hogan! ENG 302 (D) / […]
  • Sawako Nakayasu to Speak on October 8
    On October 8, Sawako Nakayasu will visit the University to perform a public reading of original work. The event will be hosted at 5:30 PM in the Hanes Gallery; it […]
  • Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series presents Steven Dunn and DrewShamir on October 2
    Steven Dunn and DrewShamir will visit the university on October 2 and will give a collaborative reading and performance. The event, located at the Hanes Art Gallery at 6:30 pm, […]
  • Welcome, Fall 2024 New Faculty!
    Jennifer Conlon, Visiting Assistant Professor, Writing Jennifer Conlon teaches first-year writing and poetry, and joined the Wake Forest Writing Program in 2024. They are the author of Taking to Water, […]