Upcoming Literary Events

"A VILLAGE CALLED VERSAILLES" - FILM SCREENING/Q&A W/FILMMAKER S. LEO CHIANG
February 9, 2010 • 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM

English Major in Writing Evening Reading Series
February 9, 2010 • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

The External World (When a Stranger Appears)
February 9, 2010 • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM


English Department News & Bulletins

  Creative Writing faculty and senior English Majors in Writing will
  share their work in our Winter Quarter Evening Reading Series.  All
  readings will take place at 5:00 p.m. in University Hall 201. Click on
  the poster for dates and details.

 


Poet Reg Gibbons is featured as "Chicagoan of the Year" for Literature in the Chicago Tribune.

Eula Biss's latest book "Notes from No Man's Land" reviewed in the Chicago Tribune.


Listen to the October 26 conference "Five Muslim American Poets" on Chicago Public Radio's Chicago Amplified.

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