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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

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  The English Major in Writing Celebrates 30 Years on campus

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  Jo Ann Beard, Frank Bidart, and George Saunders were Writers in Residence for the English Major in Writing’s 3rd Annual Spring Writers’ Festival

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  Creative Writing students congregate at the 3rd Annual Spring Writer’s Festival

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  English Department faculty attend one of the talks organized as part of the annual One Book, One Northwestern program

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  Writing students Cathy Gao (left) and Alleliah Nuguid (right) meet writer Elizabeth Benedict (center) at the Skidmore Summer Writers’ Institute.

  Photo provided by Cathy Gao.

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  Northwestern writing students Matt Pacult, Cathy Gao, and Alleliah Nuguid meet poet Frank Bidart at the Skidmore Summer Writers’ Institute.

  Photo provided by Cathy Gao.

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  Professors Mary Kinzie and John Keene celebrate 30 Years of creative writing at Northwestern

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  Professors Wendy Wall (Avalon Foundation Professor, left) and Reginald Gibbons (Frances Hooper Chair in the Arts and Humanities, right) at their inauguration, with Professor Christopher Herbert