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The Department of English Language and Literature features a strong and flexible undergraduate major and graduate degrees in literature, composition and rhetoric, creative writing, and speech communication.

Our diverse faculty boasts national and internationally known scholars in English and American literature, African American studies, composition and rhetoric, history of authorship and publishing, literary theory, linguistics, communication studies, film, and creative writing.

We foster interdisciplinary work within the department and in our connections with such USC programs as Comparative Literature, African American Studies, Linguistics, Women’s Studies, Southern Studies, and Film Studies.

We welcome your interest and invite you to explore all that English encompasses at the University of South Carolina.

What's News

Caught in the Creative Act Brings Richard Ford, Jane Hamilton, Daniel Mendelsohn to USC
International literary stars Richard Ford, Jane Hamilton, Daniel Mendelsohn to visit Caught in the Creative Act this term, along with South Carolina’s own literary treasure Josephine Humphreys, and others. Read More >>
Welcome to New Faculty
We’re pleased to welcome a truly outstanding group of new faculty into our ranks this year: Katharine Adams, David Bajo, Federica Clementi, Anne Gulick, Marvin McAllister, Sara Schwebel, Scott Trafton, and Gretchen Woertendyke.
Dan Smith Wins 2008 Mungo Teaching Award
Dan Smith has won a prestigious Michael J. Mungo Award for Undergraduate Teaching-2008, one of the university’s most prestigious honors in teaching excellence.
Department's Newsletter for Spring 2008
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"Disrupting Victorian Studies," October 3-4
The Department and USC Libraries are co-hosting the Thirty-Nineth Annual Victorians Institute, with Ian Duncan of UC Berkeley as keynote speaker and 85 other Victorian scholars. Read More >>
"Robert Burns at 250," April 2-4, 2009
The University of South Carolina library has the major Robert Burns collection outside Scotland. Scholars and Robert Burns enthusiasts will be here to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the poet's birth. Read More >>

Job Announcements

African American Literature / Black  Diaspora Studies
The English Department at the University of South Carolina continues its hiring initiative in African American Literature and Black Diaspora Studies with a search this year to fill an Assistant Professor position.  Read More >>
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric
The Program in Speech Communication & Rhetoric in the English Department at the University of South Carolina invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Rhetoric.   Read More >>


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