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The Department of English offers graduate and undergraduate programs known especially for their training in attentive reading and the crafting of critical arguments.

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Students working toward a PhD receive focused attention in our small and rigorous department.

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English majors study a broad sampling of literature from different historical periods and national contexts.

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Our faculty's specialties range from early modern to contemporary, with particular strengths in critical theory and interdisciplinary approaches to literature.

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November 8, 2021

Professor Christopher Nealon to Give George Oppen Memorial Lecture

Professor Christopher Nealon will be presenting “George Oppen and The Future”: The George Oppen Memorial Lecture, held at the San Francisco State University Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives. The […]

October 26, 2021

New Publication from Graduate Student Alex Lewis

Please join us in congratulating current graduate student Alex Lewis on his most recent publication in Milton Studies. The publication is called “Comus in Canaan: Milton’s Masque and the Rape […]

October 21, 2021

Professor Christopher Nealon to Release Two Books

Professor Christopher Nealon will be releasing two new books for publication in 2022: a collection of poetics essays from Brill Publishers called “Infinity for Marxists: Essays on Poetry and Capital,” […]

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