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MFA graduate Jonathan Escoffery recognized for fiction in competitive national award.

English alum Ann Glumac served with two Minnesota governors and led the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.

Undergrad Hannah Haakenson embraces new Department of English opportunity to show employers her experience and knowledge.

This major recommends the class "Protest Literature & Community Action" to better appreciate how literature can connect us to our communities and our world.

Alum uses stories to push for criminal justice reform: Catch the SEEN exhibit, a collaboration with Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop, through February.

A Peer Counselor for English majors, this junior values the faculty feedback she's received in English classes.

This PhD candidate is researching the intersection of needlework and printing in early twentieth-century Ireland.

The artist talks about creating public art for the Pillsbury Hall environment.

This new recognition of completed coursework and practical experience will give students an edge in career readiness.

The beauty and peculiarity of Puritan sermons led to this scholar's focus on Early American iterature.

Oh the places you'll go with a fresh crop of books from faculty and alums!

With the help of a GRPP grant, PhD candidate Yon Ji Sol traveled to the UK to do dissertation research and present a paper

PhD candidate Bomi Jeon explores Black Caribbean cultural identity within colonial spaces.

This student, double majoring in English and human services, recommends the webtoon MY BOO.

The Twin Cities artist created art for Green Line light rail stations, among other large-scale public works.

A grant fostered PhD candidate Melissa Merte's research in Victorian narrative.

Associate Professor Kim Todd has studied "stunt reporters"—female newspaper writers in the 1880s and 1890s who went undercover to expose societal ills. This Q&A covers Todd's…

This short video highlights Julie Schumacher's research.

This short video highlights Dan Philippon's research.

How have Shakespeare's works been a part of civic life?