- Major Requirements
- Honors Program
- Creative Writing
- The English Minor
- The Journalism Minor
- The Medieval Studies Minor
- Careers in English
Core Courses
(Writing Seminars & Division II)
Course Descriptions
and Information
Study Abroad / Summer School Transfer Credit Guidelines
When you study literatures in English, you engage with works of significant cultural and aesthetic value, wrestle with important philosophical questions, reconstruct histories of past times and places, and develop in writing your own critical and creative voice. We offer a diverse range of courses, a graduate program, an honors program, journalism and medieval studies minors, scholarly lectures, readings by visiting writers, an honor society, and other events, all of which give students a rich experience of the discipline of English.
Our English Department faculty members are exemplary teacher-scholars. Three current members have won the College award for Excellence in Teaching, while several others have been recognized by student organizations for superb teaching. Our faculty regularly publishes well-received books and articles. Professors holding distinguished professorships are Charles E. Taylor Professor James S. Hans, Reynolds Professor of English Herman Rapaport, Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of English Eric G. Wilson, McCullough Family Fellow Jefferson Holdridge, Ollen R. Nalley Associate Professor John McNally and Kirby Faculty Fellow Gillian Overing. In addition, our department enjoys an international dimension thanks to our dynamic, prize-winning Irish poets-in-residence, Conor O’Callaghan and Vona Groarke.
Our Masters degree graduates go on to fine Ph.D. programs or on to related professional careers. Our majors and minors excel in a variety of fields and careers, including publishing, journalism, business, finance, accounting, human resources, consulting, public relations, social work, civil service, advertising, film, the arts, education, and more. Many of our department’s recent graduates are pursuing advanced degrees in law, medicine, literature, business, and the creative and performing arts. Recent Wake Forest English majors have won Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships for advanced study in England.
Department Chair: Claudia T. Kairoff
News & Announcements
- 2008 Faculty Writing Survey Results
- Summary document and full results are now available.
- Spring 2009 Course Descriptions Now Available
- Undergraduate course descriptions are here.
Graduate course descriptions are coming soon. - Medieval & Environmental Summer Studies Program Information Session
- Nov 3, 2008, 4:30pm Tribble A209. More Info
- Symposium
- Ways of Writing for the 21st Century: The Classroom and Beyond
Nov 17, 2008 3pm, Pugh Auditorium, Benson Center. Full Description. - Upcoming Poetry Readings
- Brian Turner, Monday, February 16, TBA
Michael Hofmann,Tuesday, April 14, TBA. - Spring 2008 Newsletter
- The current newsletter is now available on the Newsletters page
- Recent Publication
- Jessica Richard, Editor. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson. Broadview Editions
Eric Wilson. .Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
