Students in English are actively engaged in the practices of reading and writing, and in thinking about the performative dimensions of speech. They work with faculty who produce groundbreaking research, publishing on a wide variety of topics.

In our department, you’ll find novelists and lexicographers working alongside biographers and poets, rhetoricians and critics—all having an impact on one another’s work. Our faculty and our students are passionate about everything from performance theory to professional writing, from Chaucer to Elvis, flash fiction and beyond.