Bachelors in English

Earning an English degree from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, means English majors study literature and film, because we believe these to be exceptionally powerful media for representing the human experience. We recognize that literature and film can reflect the dominant ideologies of their times, but they can also resist and critique them. Often they do both. Therefore, we explore works that have had a clear, widespread impact on the historical periods in which they were written, offering a sustained influence on literary traditions. We also emphasize lesser known, and frequently undervalued, writings by women, the working class, Black, Latinx, Indigenous Peoples, Asian Americans, and other marginalized groups often occluded by the academy.