Department of English

The English Department at Georgetown has one of the largest majors in the College.  With its small classes, the department emphasizes close work with students and teaching excellence.  Many of our faculty have won major university teaching prizes. Reflecting a broadening of the field in recent years, our department offers courses in canonical and non-canonical literature and film in English – whether in the Americas, Britain, or Third World countries.  Many courses are interdisciplinary and our faculty have played a major role in founding the interdisciplinary programs of the College: American Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Medieval Studies, Catholic Studies, Program on Justice and Peace, African-American Studies, the Program for Jewish Civilization.  The Department is the home of the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, the Shakespeare Association of America, the University Writing Program, the nascent Film Studies program, and the College’s undergraduate Journalism Program.

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Declaring an English Major

Awards & Prizes

The Honor System

Spring 2009 Office Hours

Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice

2008 Caine Prize Winner, Henrietta Rose-Innes

Header image from left to right: English seminar with Sarah McNamer, Zora Neale Hurston on drum, William Blake's Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve (Art Object: Detail, Photograph © 1808 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), William Shakespeare, fountain in front of Dahlgren Chapel.