A few words from Matt Kinservik, Chair . . .

Welcome to the Department of English at the University of Delaware.

The department is housed in Memorial Hall, a beautifully restored building at the center of the University of Delaware’s historic Green. We are less than an hour from Baltimore and Philadelphia, and about two hours from Manhattan and Washington DC. Our enviable location gives us access to the intellectual and cultural diversity of the Eastern Seaboard, and we encourage our students and faculty to take advantage of these opportunities by making trips to plays, operas, museums, and lectures.

We are a large and diverse department, with approximately 900 undergraduate majors, all of whom study literature in its cultural and historical contexts. In order to help students tailor their English major to their own interests, our curriculum is defined by several concentrations. We encourage our students to sample a variety of English courses and choose among one or more of our popular concentrations in Literature, Creative Writing Concentration,Professional Writing, Drama, Film, and Ethnic and Cultural Studies.

Our students also do undergraduate research under faculty mentors. We sponsor teams of undergrad researchers who work alongside faculty and graduate students to undertake and publish original research. We fund travel and materials associated with the research, and recently our undergraduate researchers have conducted field work in Ireland, Nepal, and Peru

Along with our English major, we also have a strong English Education major that prepares students to be NCATE-certified secondary education teachers of English. Our writing program features a very active Writing Center, with extensive outreach across campus, in the community, and in our public schools. And recently, we changed our Journalism program from a concentration in English to an interdisciplinary minor, so that we can embrace all forms of print, electronic, and broadcast journalism. We have a new minor in Interactive Media, an interdisciplinary program we developed with Communication, Art/Visual Communication, and Computer Science. And we also have a five-year program that leads to an MA degree in Teaching English as a Second Language, with great opportunities for teaching in either the U.S.A. or abroad.

The Graduate Program offers the MA and PhD in English. Admission is highly competitive, and all of our graduate students receive full funding through teaching assistantships. We support our graduate students with generous research funding opportunities, and we provide them with extensive training in pedagogy in order to ensure high-quality teaching. You can find their dissertation topics and excellent publication and job placement records at this website.

I welcome your interest in English at UD. Please email me if I can be of help.

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