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
- 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 […]
- Leadership and Character Artist-in-Residence Event April 20On April 20, the Leadership and Character Program will welcome award-winning poet Dr. Pádraig Ó Tuama to campus for his talk Virtue and Verse: What Poetry Can Teach Us About […]
- The Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series Presents Dr. Christian Bök on March 24Join us in Hanes Gallery on March 24, 2026 for “The Hardest Pursuit of All — the Making of the Xenotext,” a presentation and reading by Dr. Christian Bök. The talk […]
- 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 […]