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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 includes 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.

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2011-12

Professor in Victorian Literature and Science

Assistant Professor in Poetry

Assistant Professor in Eighteenth-Century Literature

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Department MFA Program ranked amongst the top 50

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Holly A. Crocker has been awarded a five-month Fulbright Fellowship

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New Books from the Faculty in 2010-11

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Erik Doxtader part of a research project supported by the South African National Research Foundation.

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Professor Greg Forter has been awarded a full year fellowship by the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah

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Congratulations to Professor Catherine Keyser for receiving a 2011 Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award!

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Professor Bob Brinkmeyer has received the 2011 USC Educational Foundation Research Award for Humanities and Social Sciences. Congratulations!

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Events Calendar

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Top 10 Reasons to Major in English (PDF)

Top Ten Reasons to Major in English
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