OUR MISSION
English Department Mission Statement
The Department of English at Marquette University is a community of scholar-teachers and students who embrace the traditional Jesuit conception of liberal education inspired by St. Ignatius of Loyola.
Informed by this tradition as well as by contemporary English Studies, the department includes nationally and internationally prominent faculty and offers the following programs of study:
- 2 undergraduate majors: English Literature, and Writing-intensive English (WINE)
- 3 undergraduate minors: English Literature, Literature of Diverse Cultures, and Writing-intensive English (WINE)
- M.A. degree: American and British Literature
- Ph.D. degree: American and British Literature
NEWSLETTERS
Read about the recent accomplishments of English faculty and graduate students
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING: FAME & "In Acting Shakespeare"
Come to Our January Book Swap:
Marquette University’s English Alumnae organization, Friends and Alumni/ae of Marquette English (FAME) will promote the love of reading and gather donated books at a Book Swap on Sunday, January 29, 2012 from 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. The free family-friendly event will be held at the Alumni Memorial Union (AMU) on the second floor lobby near the rotunda. Participants will bring gently used books of all kinds to the book swap. Organizers will help sort the books into categories. Participants may browse through the donated books, taking home half as many books as they donated, up to a maximum of five books. Families are welcome to come to campus to participate, and current undergrads will help out by organizing the books as well as playing with children who arrive with parents. “Marquette University has been a home to many of us who have developed a life-long connection to literature, and it is the ideal place to gather together to exchange stories, ideas and books,” said Grace Urbanski (title). For those who cannot make the event, there will be a donation box in the Raynor lobby in early January
• 2011-12 JOB SEARCH UPDATES:
- British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century.
- American Literature of the Late 20th, Early 21st Centuries.
• Promotions: Congratulations to: Dr. Christine Krueger, promotion to Professor, Dr. Jodi Melamed, promotion to Associate Professor and Dr. Rebecca Nowacek, promotion to Associate Professor.
• Awards: Diane Long Hoeveler has won the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize, an international prize for gothic criticism that is considered to have advanced the field of Gothic studies, 2009-11. Nominations for the prize were made by members of the International Gothic Association (IGA). The IGA is the world’s leading association dedicated to the study of the Gothic, consisting of over 200 researchers from 25 countries. Her Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780-1820 was published by Ohio State University Press in 2010. The winner of the prize was determined by a panel of past Presidents of the IGA, and was announced at the IGA’s conference at the University of Heidelberg in August 2011. This is the inaugural award of the Allan Lloyd Smith prize named in honor of the first President of IGA.
• Brian Gogan (MA Marquette, 2007) is an Assistant Professor of English in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
• Dr. Amy C. Branam (PhD, 2005) was awarded tenure at Frostburg State University where she specializes in transatlantic Romanticism
• Former graduate student Dr. Marcia Eppich-Harris (Ph.D. 2008) has acccepted a tenure-track position at Marian University in Indianapolis, IN.
• Graduate Student Fellowship winners for 2011-12 have been announced. English Department Dissertation fellowship: Daniel Burke. Smith Fellowship: Brandon Chitwood and Magdalen McKinley. Alternate for the Raynor Dissertation Fellowship: Brandon Chitwood.
• The Women's Caucus of the American Society for 18th c. Studies (ASECS) has named Marquette graduate student S. Vida Muse a co-winner of the Macaulay Prize for her essay, “From Femme Covert to Feme Overt: Public Justice in Eliza Haywood’s The Distress’d Orphan”.
• Click HERE for a flyer explaining your choices for purchasing the new Writing Matters handbook. Both the paper and e-book versions come with four years of access to the Web version of the book.
