Welcome to Georgetown English
The English Department at Georgetown University has one of the largest undergraduate majors in the College of Arts and Sciences and houses one of the few stand-alone English Masters programs at a nationally ranked university. With its small classes, the department emphasizes close work with students and teaching excellence. Our faculty boasts a robust and diverse record of publication, and many have won major university teaching prizes. Reflecting a broadening of the field in recent years, our department offers courses in canonical and non-canonical literature and film in English. Many courses are interdisciplinary and our faculty have played a major role in founding the interdisciplinary programs of the College: American Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Medieval Studies, Catholic Studies, Program on Justice and Peace, African-American Studies, and the Program for Jewish Civilization. The Department is the home of the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, the Shakespeare Association of America, the University Writing Program, and the College’s undergraduate Journalism Program.
Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice
Header image from left to right: English seminar with Sarah McNamer, Zora Neale Hurston on drum, William Blake's Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve (Art Object: Detail, Photograph © 1808 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), William Shakespeare, fountain in front of Dahlgren Chapel.
News from the College
Announcements
- 16th Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference: Keynote Lecture given by Maureen Corrigan
- An Afternoon with Poet Laureate (and former Auto Worker) Philip Levine
- Carolyn Forché gives Keynote Address as Rev. Scott Pilarz, S.J. is inaugurated as President of Marquette University
- Latino Students, Latino Studies and the Future of American Higher Education WITH RICARDO ORTIZ
- Rights, Identities, Communities: Lit. and Social Justice in India Today
Upcoming Events
- Oct 28, 12pm-1:30pm: Law & Philosophy Workshop - Lawrence Solum
- Oct 31, 5:30pm-7:30pm: CCT Prospective Student Open House
- Nov 1, 2pm-4:30pm: Roxy Gagdekar, Journalist from Ahmedabad