Literature moves us, inspires us, troubles us, and provokes us. It invigorates empathy and imagination, arming us better to understand the world and our responsibilities within it.
In the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing, we study and teach literature:
- in a wide array of genres and media
- across diverse historical periods and geographical territories
- via myriad critical frameworks and modes of analysis
And we do so in ways that engage with the most pressing issues of our time鈥攔acism, gender and sexual politics, decolonization, environmental crisis, the impact of media and technology, and the challenges of mental health鈥攂oth critiquing adverse conditions and imagining other horizons of possibility.
Sam McKegney
Professor and Head
Department of English Literature and Creative Writing