Degrees related to the areas of Art, Communications, English and Writing, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Spanish, Speech, Theatre.
All members of the English faculty are well-published, established writers in their respective genres who are active in their writing communities. Ki Russell is the author of How to Become Baba Yaga (The Medulla Review, 2014), The Wolf at the Door (Ars Omnia Press, 2014), and Antler Woman Responds (Paladin Contemporaries, 2014). Shaindel Beers is the author of A Brief History of Time (Salt Publishing, 2009), The Children’s War and Other Poems (Salt Publishing, 2013), and Secure Your Own Mask (White Pine Press, 2018).
Material covered in our courses includes Poetry (WR 241; ENG 106), Fiction (WR 242; ENG 104), Creative Nonfiction (WR 243), and Argument & Rhetoric (WR 122Z). We also have courses that focus on American literature, Women’s literature, Shakespeare, Fairy tales and Folklore, and more!
Each year, the English department holds a literary arts competition, with prizes for Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction. Several winners and finalists have gone on to have their work published.
