Discover your passion
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Find new horizons
Our majors go on to have successful careers. With a degree in English or Creative Writing, you can do nearly anything. Advisors and career planning specialists can help you discover ways to match the skills you gain with available internships, volunteer opportunities, and leadership roles, giving you the chance to gain real-world experience and build professional networks. To learn more about professional development opportunities and career outcomes for our majors, visit LAS Career Services.
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Build your creative community
If writing feels as necessary as breathing, this major is for you. Our students read and write well, and they are also skilled oral communicators. They thrive when surrounded by diverse styles, aesthetics, and world views.
- The literature of extreme poverty during the Great Depression offered an aesthetic that matched the hopelessness and isolation of the unemployed and those living on the street. Robert Dale Parker, a professor emeritus of...
- John Milas’ journey as a writer has been far from typical, but those unique experiences helped shape his gripping gothic horror novel about a mysterious abandoned building in Afghanistan and the soldiers who would never be the same after entering it. A Champaign-Urbana native, Milas (BA, ’16,...
Read full story Write what you know: The unusual journey that led to a haunting novel
- The English major is dead. Or at least that seems an increasingly common perception since the advent of artificial intelligence and the release of OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT. Much of this pessimism could be attributed to the sensationalism surrounding AI. Some AI advocates exalt it as a...
Read full story Is the English major obsolete in the age of AI?
- The College of LAS has selected 16 professors, graduate students, lecturers, and advisors as the recipients of the 2025 teaching and advising rewards. "We are honored and fortunate to have so many amazing teachers and advisors in the College of LAS,” said Venetria K. Patton, the Harry E. Preble...
Read full story Jamie Jones and Mary Rose Cottingham earn LAS teaching awards
- A new novel by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign English professor David Wright Faladé tells the story of three people in a love triangle in post-World War II Paris. The characters in “...
Read full story English professor’s novel tells of love triangle in post-WWII Paris
