BA English

The English Department offers instruction in a wide range of literary and cultural studies, as well as creative writing and rhetoric and composition. Courses focus on major figures (Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Toni Morrison), specific periods (Renaissance, Victorian, Modern), or genres (the novel, drama, poetry). Other classes cover critical theory, literatures outside the established canon, journalism, creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry writing.