EVENTS
- TODAY: Friday, Feb. 10, 1:30pm
Christoph Irmscher: Writing the Life of Louis Agassiz (Ballantine Hall 003) - Thursday, February 16, 4:30pm
English Coffee Hour (PourHouse on Kirkwood) - Thursday, February 16, 4:30pm
Koritha Mitchell, “Living with Lynching: African American Drama and Citizenship” (Theatre and Drama Building) - Monday, February 20, 3:00pm
English Honors Information Session with Ellen MacKay and Patty Ingham (Ballantine 004) - More events >>
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- Three graduate students — Ming Holden, Chris Basgier, and Andy Oler — in our department have recently earned prestigious campus-wide awards.
- M.F.A. student Ming Holden is this year's recipient of the Wells Graduate Fellowship, meant to honor an IU graduate student who best exemplifies the character traits fro which Herman B. Wells was known: leadership, academic excellence, character, social consciousness, and generosity of spirit. Ming worked as an operational partner with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to mobilize a theater group for young Congolese women in the slums of Nairobi.
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English at Indiana — Who We Are and What We Do
The English Department explores and expands the power of the English language, in all its historical, persuasive, and expressive range. We are devotees of the word; our mission is to celebrate powerful writing, and to bring more of such writing into the world. This mission embraces everything we do, from freshman composition instruction to the most advanced research published by our world-class faculty.
Our classes and publications draw connections between the globally diverse and everyday life. We study everything from science to religion, business to popular culture, politics to philosophy. In the department you’ll find novelists and lexicographers, biographers and poets, rhetoricians and critics, experts in everything from performance theory to professional writing, and from Shakespeare to Elvis. We publish on a very wide variety of topics, among them the Harlem cabarets of the 1920’s and th e invention of the thoroughbred horse; Audubon’s ornithological travels and the role of race in medieval romance; images of Judas through the ages and on the locks of Sylvia Plath’s hair housed in the Lilly Library; Renaissance rhetoric and contemporary slang; war and animals, slumming and pirates, glamour and perfection, Lacan and Lebowski.
