Welcome

The English Department is committed to excellence in teaching, research, and service in the following disciplines: British, American, and global literature in English; business writing and technical communication; writing pedagogy and composition theory; teacher education; and creative writing. The department serves non-majors, majors, and graduate students by providing a wide array of courses that foster sound research; intellectual curiosity; critical thinking and reading; and clear, graceful, and persuasive writing and speaking. Through its programs, graduates, and faculty, the department contributes significantly to the cultural and academic enrichment and the quality of life of the campus, community, state, and region.

	Professor Angela Balla's article "Wars of Evidence and Religious Toleration in Milton's Samson Agonistes" appears in the Spring issue of Milton Quarterly, 46.2 (2012): 1-24.
	Professor Holly Flint's article "White Talk, White Writing: New Contexts for Examining Genre and Identity in J. M. Coetzee's Foe" appeared in the Winter issue of Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory, 22.4 (2011): 336-53.
	Professor Ryan Weber’s essay “Ecological, Pedagogical Public Rhetoric," co-authored with Nathaniel Rivers, was published in College Composition and Communication. 63.2 (Dec 2011): 187-218.
	Professor Alanna Frost’s article “Literacy Stewardship: Dakelh Women Composing Culture” appeared in the Fall 2011 issue of College Composition and Communication.
	Professor Laurel Bollinger’s essay "Symbiogenesis, Selfhood and Science Fiction," published in Science Fiction Studies 37 (2010), was shortlisted for the Science Fiction Research Association’s prestigious Pioneer Award.
	Professor Eric Smith's article “‘A Presage of Horror’: Cacotopia, the Paris Commune, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula” appeared in the winter 2010 volume of the journal Criticism.