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
- Announcing the 25-26 D.A. Brown Essay Award WinnersEach year, English faculty nominate the top essays from their lower- and upper-level literature courses for the department’s D.A. Brown Essay Awards. This summer, two students were recognized for exemplary […]
- Celebrating Olga ValbuenaBy Chris Brown, Chair of English The first warm day of this spring, as I made my way toward the library, I could see through some open windows into a […]
- Congratulations to Newly Promoted Faculty!Congratulations to our newly promoted and tenured faculty! On Friday afternoon the College announced Derek Lee and Alisa Russell’s tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, as well as Guy Witzel’s […]
- Spring 2026 English Student Scholarships and AwardsCongratulations to the recipients of the English Department’s 2025-2026 scholarships and awards! H. Broadus Jones Senior Award for Excellence in English Awarded to an outstanding senior major. Recipient: Anne Jones […]
- Wake Forest Alum Caroline Hallemann Publishing New Biography this SummerEnglish Department alum Caroline Hallemann (’11), now a writer and editor for Town & Country Magazine, will be publishing her first book with Penguin Random House this summer. The non-fiction […]