Meet Denise Stroud, who recently won the spring 2022 Bland Simpson writing award!

Meet Chelsea Deitelzweig, a pre-med English major and Morehead-Cain Scholar!

“I like writing about things that are actually happening in the world that I feel are relevant. Nonfiction can actually be super interesting if you tell the story the right way.”

Congratulations to Peñaflor on being awarded the Thomas Wolfe Scholarship for her literary promise!

Meet Jennings Dixon, senior double major in political science and ECL!

The Department of English and Comparative Literature is welcoming a cohort of twelve new PhD candidates!

Gwendalyn Flick, a double major in English and Business Administration, values the interdisciplinary focus of her classes. “I feel so lucky that I am able to be a part of two programs that see the value in cross-departmental learning,” she says.

“My experience with literature has been a willingness to sit in the discomfort of someone else’s experience… Reading and literature have helped me to seek out different ways that people contextualize and make meaning from their experiences.”

Meet Alexis Dumain, Psychology and English and Comparative Literature double major!

“It was very crucial for me to remember who I was as a writer, who I am as a person, where I want to go, who I’m looking to reach with my work—and I think that was something that I got better at understanding each English class I took.”