2024-2025 University Catalog
English (ENGL)
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English
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: Holly Pickett
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
John Lucian Smith, Jr. Memorial Term Professor of English
Ph.D., Yale University
Lubabah Chowdhury, Ph.D.—(2022)-2022
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., Brown University
Christopher Gavaler, M.F.A.—(2014)-2024
Professor of English
M.F.A., University of Virginia
Genelle C. Gertz, Ph.D.—(2003)-2016
Thomas H. Broadus, Jr. Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College for Strategic Initiatives
Ph.D., Princeton University
K. Avvirin Gray, Ph.D.—(2022)-2022
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., University of Southern California
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)-2024
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., Tufts University
Holly C. Pickett, Ph.D.—(2005)-2023
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 of English and Editor of Shenandoah
M.F.A., Arizona State University
Lesley M. Wheeler, Ph.D.—(1994)-2006
Henry S. Fox Professor of English
Ph.D., Princeton University
Major
Minor
- • ENGL 201 - Introduction to Creative Writing
- • ENGL 202 - Creative Writing: Playwriting
- • ENGL 203 - Creative Writing: Fiction
- • ENGL 204 - Creative Writing: Poetry
- • ENGL 206 - Creative Writing: Nonfiction
- • ENGL 207 - Eco-Writing
- • ENGL 210 - Topics in Creative Writing
- • ENGL 214 - Environmental Poetry Workshop
- • 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 239 - Magical Education
- • ENGL 240 - Arthurian Legend
- • ENGL 241 - Cinema Arthuriana
- • ENGL 242 - Individual Shakespeare Play
- • ENGL 244 - Health, Care, and Compassion on Stage and Screen
- • 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 257 - Business in American Literature and Film
- • ENGL 258 - Literature and Film of the American West
- • ENGL 259 - Enslavement and Abolition in British Literature 1688-1831
- • ENGL 260 - Literary Approaches to Poverty
- • ENGL 262 - Literature, Race, and Ethnicity
- • ENGL 263 - Nature as Self: Environmental Literature in the Anthropocene
- • ENGL 264 - The Body Electric: Queer Theory, Film, and Text
- • ENGL 265 - Constructing Black Lives in Film and Literature
- • ENGL 266 - Introduction to African American Literature
- • ENGL 270 - Individual Novel
- • ENGL 285 - Reading Lolita in Lexington
- • ENGL 289 - Literary Book Publishing
- • ENGL 290 - Having it All: Life, Literature and Career
- • 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 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 315 - Arthurian Bodies, Desires, and Affects
- • ENGL 316 - The Tudors
- • ENGL 319 - Shakespeare and Company
- • ENGL 320 - Shakespearean Genres
- • ENGL 326 - 17th-Century Poetry
- • ENGL 330 - Milton
- • ENGL 335 - 18th-Century Novels
- • ENGL 345 - Studies in the 19th-Century British Novel
- • ENGL 346 - Early African American Print Culture
- • ENGL 349 - Middlemarch and Devoted Readers
- • ENGL 353 - Poetry, Skepticism and the Sacred
- • 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 - Modern Poetry’s Media
- • ENGL 364 - Poetry and Authenticity
- • 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 374 - King and Kubrick
- • ENGL 375 - Literary Theory
- • ENGL 376 - Postcolonial Literature and Theory
- • ENGL 382 - Hotel Orient
- • ENGL 386 - Supervised Study in Great Britain
- • 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 402 - 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
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