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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Students' Travel Spurs Inspiration

This year's English fundraising efforts are focusing on four important funds, one each for the undergraduate, PhD, and MFA programs, as well as the literary magazine produced by our graduate students, dislocate. The O'Rourke Travel Fellowship in Creative Writing allows MFA students the opportunity to write without borders.

Brennan & Scheil Receive CLA Honors

Two of our faculty received major awards from the College of Liberal Arts this spring: Professor Timothy Brennan was named Samuel Russell Chair in the Humanities for 2014-17, and Professor Katherine Scheil was named Scholar of the College for the same period. We asked Brennan and Scheil what they hope to accomplish.

Faculty News

News about publications, lectures, and awards from English faculty.

PhD News

News about publications, presentations, and awards from PhD candidates and alumnae/i.

MFA News

News about publications and awards from MFA candidates and alumnae/i.

BA News

News from BA alumnae/i.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

English Makes a Video!

If it's ironic that we're taking to visual media to show how studies in English prepare our students for a diverse array of careers, we don't care: It was fun. What can you do with a degree in English? Banker, poet, curator, mall developer, teacher, novelist, lawyer, environmental policy maker, publisher, and, um, radio show host: we filmed 'em all. Watch the video!

Department of English Video