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
- The Dean Family Speaker Series – Imaginiary Amendments in American Science Fiction – Dr. Isiah Lavender III – January 24, 2024The Sterling Goodman Professor of English at the University of Georgia, Dr. Isiah Lavender III, is the author of six books in science fiction. He will join us in the […]
- Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series Hosts Horror with Stephen Graham Jones February 20, 2024Stephen Graham Jones will join us at 6:00 pm on Tuesday February 20, 2024 in the Byrum Welcome Center. The event is free and open to the public Stephen Graham […]
- Poet-Trees: A Reading of Work by Wake Forest University Poet-ScholarsThursday, November 2, 5pm, The Autumn Room, Reyholda Hall. Sponsored by the William R Kenan, Jr Professorship in the Humanities
- The Dean Family Speaker Series presents Christopher Freeburg and Michael Snediker – “What Aesthetics Matter” – October 18, 2023
- Poetry Reading with Michael D Snediker and Cole Swensen – October 19, 2023ZSR auditorium (404) October 19th 5 pm FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC