ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

Whatever your goals, our programs offer you a way to meet them. We may be the only English department in the country to own a farm and nature preserve, and our students have the opportunity to do internships, fieldwork, and nature writing on this piece of prairie. Students in the English Department also have many opportunities to meet some of the most exciting people working in the field of English today. Guest lecturers in 2011 have included, Scott McCloud, the author of Understanding Comics and the linguist Paul Frommer who created the Na'vi language for the film Avatar. In addition, every February, we host the Wildness Symposium that brings environmental and nature writers to campus.