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How to understand subjectivities remote from one’s own in time, space, or social location? How to evaluate divergent interpretations of the same text or utterance? How to reconcile cultural sensitivity with freedom of expression?
They will develop new curricula aimed at reframing British and American literature through a transatlantic lens and also exploring how performance artworks were created and consumed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Undergraduate
The Creative Writing Major is one of the first and finest undergraduate programs of its kind in the country. Its reputation is based on accomplishments of its graduates, the generosity of its professors, and a pedagogy that creates a fruitful symbiosis between close reading and inventive writing.
Being an English literature major at Northwestern means reading literature that’s been circulating across more than 1000 years of history and nearly every the continent of the globe, and the skills you learn will help prepare you for virtually any career you can think of.
Graduate
This program offers intimate classes, the opportunity to pursue both creative and critical writing, and close mentorship by renowned faculty in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Our three-year curriculum gives students time to deepen both their creative writing and their study of literature. Students complete two degrees concurrently --an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in English.
Designed to be completed in one year and flexible in its requirements, our Master's in Literature allows students considerable freedom in choosing courses in English and in related disciplines. Most are planning to move on to Doctoral study elsewhere, improve their credentials as teachers in secondary schools and community colleges, or to take their experience into the business and publishing sectors.
Our PhD program offers advanced study and research in literary history, criticism, and theory, with excellent opportunities for study between both disciplines and departments. Courses within the department cover major genres, periods, authors, and a broad range of methodological and theoretical approaches. Significant support in professional development and on the job market are cornerstones of the program.
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Online
Lecture by Dixa Ramírez D'Oleo, Brown University Presented by the American Cultures Colloquium, English Department
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
Brigitte Fielder, UW Madison, Author of Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America (Duke 2020)
