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Meet Our Undergraduate Majors
Listen to four undergraduates describe their Honors theses!
DeShawn McKinney selected to receive the national Truman Scholarship!
In addition to his work in the English and Creative Writing departments, DeShawn McKinney is also a First Wave and PEOPLE scholar. He is a vocal leader for the Black Lives Matter movement and an advocate for racial equality on campus. Read an interview with DeShawn here.
Distinguished Alumni
This year's honorees for the Distinguished Alumni Award are Peter and Susan Straub! Learn more about the award and watch a video of the award presentation here.
Why study English?
See what major publications have to say about the advantages of an English major.
Interested in Majoring in English?
Contact the English Department's Advisor Karen Redfield to learn more about the opportunities available to English majors and how you can declare your English major.

Events

WedSep28
Susan Squier's Public Lecture
7:00 PM
6191 Helen C White Hall
FriOct07
Film Series Asian American Media Spotlight: Bad Rap Q&A with Producer Jaeki Cho
7:00 PM
Elvehjem L140, 800 University Ave.
SatOct08
Film Series Asian American Media Spotlight: Tyrus
2:00 PM
Vilas 4070
SatOct08
Film Series Asian American Media Spotlight: Mele Murals Q&A with Filmmaker Tad Nakamura
7:00 PM
Vilas 4070

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Faculty Bookshelf

Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique
Tejumola Olaniyan
The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics
Ramzi Fawaz

NYU Press
Literature and Animal Studies
Mario Ortiz-Robles

Routledge
Platonic Occasions: Dialogues on Literature, Art and Culture
Richard Begam & James Soderhom

Stockholm University Press
Ariel’s Ecology: Personhood and Colonialism in the American Tropics, 1760-1820
Monique Allewaert

University of Minnesota Press
My Life as a Silent Movie
Jesse Lee Kercheval

Indiana University Press
Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf
Susan David Bernstein

Edinburgh University Press
Constitutive Visions
Christa J. Olson

Penn State University Press
The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Russ Castronovo, Ed.

Oxford University Press
Dorothy West's Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson

Rutgers University Press

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