English
Welcome to the UTC English Department
So you're considering the English major?
Maybe you already know that being an English major is a mind-expanding experience. Our programs offer insight into the human condition and help you develop your creativity and rhetorical savvy.
But an English degree will also prepare you for a career after graduation. English majors have led businesses as successful and varied as YouTube, Walt Disney Company, and Match.com.
Our graduates are entrepreneurs, business executives, lawyers, television script writers, novelists, marketing professionals, technical writers, and more.
Follow our podcast, English Matters, to learn more about the accomplishments of our faculty and students.
- Mission
“Unless you are at home in metaphor,” Robert Frost wrote—unless you are able to deal with the complexities, implications and surprises of the world that surrounds us —then “you are lost.”
We prepare you for life beyond college, adding to your inventory of competencies and teaching you to hold complex and sometimes contradictory elements in balance.
Most importantly, we’ll help you find your way, your voice—whether you’re analyzing texts or writing your own.
- Degrees
Our programs engage the imagination and communicate a sense of wonder and excitement about written culture.
We offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric & Professional Writing.
But we do more than teach amazing classes—we give students opportunities to edit and produce publications, hold internships, engage with community projects, and attend conferences around the country.
- Faculty
Study with award-winning professors students love. Our faculty includes Fulbright Fellows, NEA and Guggenheim grantees, sports writers, Tolkien scholars, gamers, pop culture fiends, and more.
- Organizations
Sigma Tau Delta: International English Honor Society
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
The Modern Language Association (MLA)
English Dept Events
![Sp24 Meacham Fellow Christina Catherine Martinez at "Move, Dummy: Writing as Physical Practice"](/sites/default/files/2024-03/img_4006.jpg "Sp24 Meacham Fellow Christina Catherine Martinez at "Move, Dummy: Writing as Physical Practice"")
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![Sp24 Meacham Fellow Christina Catherine Martinez at "Move, Dummy: Writing as Physical Practice"](/sites/default/files/2024-03/img_4004.jpg "Sp24 Meacham Fellow Christina Catherine Martinez at "Move, Dummy: Writing as Physical Practice"")
Upcoming Events
Wuthering Heights Dinner and Movie Night
When: Sun., March 1, 3p
Where: AMC 12 Downtown and Mellow Mushroom
Cost: FREE for students
Questions? Contact Profs. S. Monds or S. Todd
Take Five
2026 Theme: Americans Abroad.
Mar. 3: Will Kuby presents Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley
Mar. 24: Verbie Prevost presents Henry James’s Daisy Miller
Apr. 7: Bryan Hampton presents Julie Schumacher’s The English Experience
All Take Five events happen on Tuesdays at 6p in the Tennessee Room of the UC.
For questions, contact Dr. Aaron Shaheen.
Author David George Haskell Visit
Fri., March 27
Writing Workshop @ 2:30p in Guerry Reading Room
Lecture & Reading @ 6p in Fine Arts Center
For Questions: Contact Dr. Catherine Meeks Quinlan
UTC Book Club March Book
Bonnie Garmus' Lessons in Chemistry
Fri., March 27, 3p to 4:30p
Library 440
Questions: Contact Profs. Todd or Monds
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