English (ENGL)

HONORS: An Honors Program in English is offered for qualified students; see the English Department website (www.wlu.edu/english-department/about-the-departments-offerings/honors-program) for details.

Department Head: Genelle Gertz

Faculty

First date is the year in which the faculty member began service as regular faculty at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.

Edward Adams, Ph.D.—(1993)-2012
Professor of English
Ph.D., Yale University

Christopher Gavaler, M.F.A.—(2014)-2018
Associate Professor of English
M.F.A., University of Virginia

Genelle C. Gertz, Ph.D.—(2003)-2016
Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College for Strategic Inititatives
Ph.D., Princeton University

Lena Hill, Ph.D.—(2018)-2018
Professor of English and Provost
Ph.D., Yale University

Wan-Chuan Kao, Ph.D.—(2013)-2019
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., City University of New York

Diego A. Millan, Ph.D.—(2017)-2017
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., Tufts University

Holly C. Pickett, Ph.D.—(2005)-2011
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Kary D. Smout, Ph.D.—(1991)-1998
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., Duke University

Beth A. Staples, M.F.A.—(2018)-2020
Assistant Professor in English and Editor of Shenandoah
M.F.A., Arizona State University

Taylor Walle, Ph.D.—(2016)-2016
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Lesley M. Wheeler, Ph.D.—(1994)-2006
Henry S. Fox Professor of English
Ph.D., Princeton University

Degrees/Majors/Minors

Major

• •  English major leading to BA degree

Minor

• •  Creative Writing minor

Courses

• •  ENGL 201 - Introduction to Creative Writing
• •  ENGL 202 - Topics in Creative Writing: Playwriting
• •  ENGL 203 - Topics in Creative Writing: Fiction
• •  ENGL 204 - Topics in Creative Writing: Poetry
• •  ENGL 206 - Topics in Creative Writing: Nonfiction
• •  ENGL 207 - Eco-Writing
• •  ENGL 210 - Topics in Creative Writing
• •  ENGL 214 - Eco-Poetry
• •  ENGL 215 - Creating Comics
• •  ENGL 222 - Introductory Topics in British Literature
• •  ENGL 223 - Introductory Topics in American Literature
• •  ENGL 224 - Introductory Topics in World Literature
• •  ENGL 229 - Protest Poetry
• •  ENGL 230 - Poetry and Music
• •  ENGL 231 - Drama
• •  ENGL 232 - The Novel
• •  ENGL 233 - Introduction to Film
• •  ENGL 234 - Children’s Literature
• •  ENGL 236 - The Bible as English Literature
• •  ENGL 237 - The Bible as Literature: Exile and Return
• •  ENGL 240 - Arthurian Legend
• •  ENGL 242 - Individual Shakespeare Play: Othello
• •  ENGL 250 - Medieval and Early Modern British Literature
• •  ENGL 252 - Shakespeare
• •  ENGL 253 - Literature of the American South
• •  ENGL 254 - I Heart Jane: Austen’s Fan Cultures and Afterlives
• •  ENGL 260 - Literary Approaches to Poverty
• •  ENGL 261 - Reading Gender
• •  ENGL 262 - Literature, Race, and Ethnicity
• •  ENGL 263 - Nature as Self: Environmental Literature in the Anthropocene
• •  ENGL 270 - Individual Novel
• •  ENGL 285 - Reading Lolita in Lexington
• •  ENGL 286 - Black Writers and the Allure of Paris
• •  ENGL 290 - English Works: Careers for English Majors
• •  ENGL 291 - Seminar
• •  ENGL 292 - Topics in British Literature
• •  ENGL 293 - Topics in American Literature
• •  ENGL 294 - Topics in World Literature in English
• •  ENGL 295 - Spring-Term Seminar in Literary Studies
• •  ENGL 296 - Topics in Law and Literature
• •  ENGL 299 - Seminar for Prospective Majors
• •  ENGL 304 - Literary Book Publishing
• •  ENGL 306 - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry
• •  ENGL 307 - Fresh/Local/Wild: The Poetics of Food
• •  ENGL 308 - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction
• •  ENGL 309 - Advanced Creative Writing: Memoir
• •  ENGL 312 - Gender, Love, and Marriage in the Middle Ages
• •  ENGL 313 - Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
• •  ENGL 316 - The Tudors
• •  ENGL 319 - Shakespeare and Company
• •  ENGL 320 - Shakespearean Genres
• •  ENGL 321 - Celluloid Shakespeare
• •  ENGL 326 - 17th-Century Poetry
• •  ENGL 330 - Milton
• •  ENGL 335 - 18th-Century Novels
• •  ENGL 345 - Studies in the 19th-Century British Novel
• •  ENGL 349 - Middlemarch and Devoted Readers
• •  ENGL 353 - 20th-Century British and Irish Poetry
• •  ENGL 354 - Contemporary British and American Drama
• •  ENGL 356 - Whitman vs Dickinson
• •  ENGL 359 - Literature by Women of Color
• •  ENGL 361 - Native American Literatures
• •  ENGL 363 - American Poetry from 1900 to 1945
• •  ENGL 364 - American Poetry at Mid-Century
• •  ENGL 365 - Studies in Contemporary Poetry
• •  ENGL 366 - African-American Literature
• •  ENGL 367 - 19th-Century American Novel
• •  ENGL 369 - Late 20th-Century North American Fiction
• •  ENGL 370 - Contemporary North American Fiction
• •  ENGL 373 - Hitchcock
• •  ENGL 374 - King and Kubrick
• •  ENGL 375 - Literary Theory
• •  ENGL 382 - Hotel Orient
• •  ENGL 386 - Supervised Study in Great Britain
• •  ENGL 387 - Visions and Beliefs of the West of Ireland
• •  ENGL 391 - Topics in Creative Writing
• •  ENGL 392 - Topics in Literature in English before 1700
• •  ENGL 393 - Topics in Literature in English from 1700-1900
• •  ENGL 394 - Topics in Literature in English since 1900
• •  ENGL 395 - Topics in Literature in English in Counter Traditions
• •  ENGL 401 - Directed Individual Study
• •  ENGL 403 - Directed Individual Study
• •  ENGL 413 - Senior Research and Writing
• •  ENGL 431 - Master Class in Creative Writing
• •  ENGL 453 - Internship in Literary Editing with Shenandoah
• •  ENGL 493 - Honors Thesis