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.
- David Wright Faladé, professor of creative writing in the Department of English, was recently published in The New Yorker. His short story,...
Read full story David Wright Faladé's short story published in The New Yorker magazine
- English and African American studies professor Irvin Hunt thought twice before he answered a phone call from an unknown caller, but little did he know that it was about to change everything. It came from film...
Read full story Screenwriting at the intersection of fiction and history
- Professor Tim Dean has been named the Frank Hodgins Chair in American Literature. With the named position, Dean is being recognized as a leading scholar in the fields of American literature, queer theory, psychoanalytic...
Read full story Tim Dean named Frank Hodgins Chair in American Literature
- Angelina Correa became a believer in peer court in high school when she served as a juror in the justice program meant to give juvenile criminal offenders a second chance at reform. When Correa, a rising sophomore double majoring in political science and...
- David Miller has earned a grant from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Miller earned his MFA in creative writing this spring from the Department of English’s Creative Writing Program.Miller, who grew up in Glencoe, Ill., will use the grant to teach English in Romania....
