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Contemplating an English Major?
English majors pursue many career paths, including law, business, journalism, and medicine. Learn more.
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Why English?
English alumna pursues her passion as a TV writer/producer. Watch video.
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Sitter Receives Sheedy Award
English Professor John Sitter received the 2014 Sheedy Excellence in Teaching Award. Read more. Watch Video.
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Why Novels Matter
Professor and novelist Barry McCrea reflects on why we read and write novels. Watch video.
Ensley Wins ND 3MT Competition
English PhD student Mimi Ensley won the 2017 Notre Dame Graduate School Shaheen Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT), a communication competition where graduate students from the Colleges of Engineering, Science and Arts and Letters try to effectively explain their research in a language appropriate to an audience of specialists and non-specialists alike, in three minutes or less.
Marshall Awarded NHC Fellowship
Kate Marshall, associate professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, has received a fellowship from the National Humanities Center (NHC) to spend this academic year researching and writing at the center in Durham, North Carolina.
Stephen M. Fallon Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Fallon will use his fellowship to complete a comparative study of what happens when the poet and theologian John Milton and the scientist and theologian Isaac Newton address some of the world’s biggest questions and come up with parallel answers.