ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

PROGRAMS OF STUDY

• 3 undergraduate majors: Literature, Writing-Intensive English, and English Language Arts
• 4 undergraduate minors: Creative Writing, Literature, Writing-Intensive English, and Literature of Diverse Cultures
• M.A. in British, American and other Anglophone literatures
• Ph.D. in British, American and other Anglophone literatures
  
  

List of M.A. and Ph.D. graduates

ALUMNI DESTINATIONS:

• Dan Bergen, Executive Director, Office of Community Engagement
• Lisa Bonvissuto, Editorial Assistant, St. Martin's Press
• Lydia Eichner, Senior Content Specialist, Laughlin Constable
• Adam Plantinga, Police Officer and Writer
• Wyatt Massey, Journalist and Men's Health Advocate

Learn about digital projects led by Marquette English faculty.

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

Marquette Humanities Colloquium Website -
https://marquettehumanitiescolloquium.wordpress.com/

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NEWSLETTERS

The Spring 2018 issue of the English Department's newsletter is now available at http://www.muenglishnews.com​. Thank you to interns Annie Dysart and Abby Vakulskas for their ​hard work on developing this newsletter.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The English Department is hiring! We seek candidates for the following positions:

Assistant Professor of English, Native American and Indigenous Literature and Studies

Assistant Professor of English, African Continental and Diasporic Literatures

The Department of English congratulates:

• Jenna Lieungh for receiving the 2018 Outstanding Senior English Major Award

• Dr. Albert Rivero for receiving the Way Klingler Fellowship for Humanities/Social Sciences. The award, offering three years of support for research, is one of the University's top honors for scholarship.

• Dr. Leah Flack, who became the eighth faculty member in the English Department to receive Marquette’s university-wide Teaching Excellence Award.

• Dr. Rebecca Nowacek who has been awarded a Mellon Grant for her project "The WRITE Program: Sponsoring Undergraduate Research to Improve Undergraduate Writing Instruction."

• CJ Hribal for receiving the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction for his story, "Do I Look Sick to You?: Notes on How to Make Love to a Cancer Patient." The story was selected by Ha Jin to appear in the spring issue of the Bellevue Literary Review.

• Dr. Cedric Burrows, who was awarded a Rynne Research Fellowship from the Center for Peacemaking for his project “Rhetorical Crossover: The Black Rhetorical Presence in White Culture.”

• Dr. Liza Strakhov, Assistant Professor of English and Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Critical Bibliography, who received recognition for her interdisciplinary research on the History of the Book. Cheers, Liza!

• Recent Marquette English graduate Michael Welch for winning the Florence Kahn Memorial Award from the National Federation of State Poetry Societies! Michael's poetry collection, But Sometimes I Remember, is now available in print from NFSPS Press.