Upcoming Literary Events
UEA - Banned Books Reading Club
February 9, 2012 • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Afrologue: Undergraduates Interested in Africa
February 9, 2012 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals
February 10, 2012 • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
English Department News & Bulletins
The English Department is now on Twitter! Follow us at @NUEnglishDept to stay informed of upcoming events and join us on Facebook!
The next meeting of the Banned Books reading club- February 9 at 5:00 p.m. University Hall 318
The book is Allen Ginsberg's Howl
Pick up a free copy of the book in University Hall 215.
The Creative Writing Major's Winter Quarter Faculty/ Senior Reading Series begins on January 10. Click poster below for details.
Associate Professor Vivasvan Soni wins the MLA's Prize for a First Book for Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity. Read the full press release.
Welcome
Northwestern University's English Department is an energetic, collegial community of distinguished scholars teaching and publishing in a wide range of literary, cultural, and creative fields, with a variety of disciplinary and methodological approaches.
With outstanding teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, a popular, well-organized undergraduate major, and a small, well-funded Ph.D. program--all supporting close working relations between faculty and students--the department combines the virtues of large scope and intimate scale. Read more









