Departmental Mission Statement

A strong English department is central to liberal arts education because it helps students become more incisive critical thinkers, more effective communicators, and more sensitive and intelligent interpreters of texts of all kinds.

As a department, our aims are:

To maintain an attractive literature, writing, and cultural studies curriculum crucial to an excellent liberal arts education.

To support a general education program that teaches reading and writing, and undergraduate program that bridges the gap between teaching and research, and a graduate program that responsibly trains professionals for teaching, research, and leadership in higher education and elsewhere.

To support research and publication of original scholarship which advances the fields of English study and nonfiction writing.

To conduct research and develop courses in tandem with interdisciplinary, cross-departmental initiatives that add value to the institution.

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