The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...

Mr. Ebenezer Charlton Black, late of the University of Edinburgh, is delivering a course of twenty lectures on English Literature, in Sever 11, on Monday evenings at 7.30. The lectures are open to the ...

This course is intended to serve as the first course in the department for English majors and minors, providing training in the disciplinary conventions of close reading and academic writing. Focus on ...

Poetry by contemporary Southern writers was the topic of USC Aiken’s latest “Aiken in the Alley” lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 6. Dr. Tom Mack, distinguished professor emeritus, and Andrew Geyer, ...

Foster your love of literature, film, theatre, creative writing and more. Explore literary cultures from the medieval to the present day, engaging with diverse texts and media from all over the world ...

We are accepting Fall 2026 applications for our Ph.D. programs. We plan to resume M.A. and MFA admissions in Fall 2027 The BA-MA, MA, and PhD degree programs in English and American Literature enable ...

Students develop skills in critical thinking, rhetorical analysis, writing, literary theory, and models of literary interpretation relevant to fields such as philosophy, history, and anthropology.

Research in the Department of English brings the core values of our discipline-textual scholarship, critical and theoretical analysis, and contextual knowledge, to the dynamic and changing field of ...