A Letter From the Department Chair

It is my delight to serve as the Chair of the English Department at Temple University. Home to a thriving undergraduate major, a rich M.A. program in Creative Writing, and a selective Ph.D. program, our department can boast of extraordinary, prize-winning faculty, excellent students, and a diverse curriculum. Professor Larry Venuti, an internationally recognized expert in translation studies, has just been awarded the highly prestigious Guggenheim award. Our creative writing faculty has also received numerous national awards, including Pew Fellowships in the Arts in both 2002 and 2006 for two of our poets, (Rachel DuPlessis) and (Jena Osman), while Professor Samuel Delany science fiction is nationally and internationally recognized. Our talented literature faculty have received prestigious awards for their work in theory and criticism: Dan O’Hara won the 2006 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, Eli Goldblatt’s recent scholarship has been recognized by his field with the 2005 Richard Ohman award. Award-winning for scholarship, we are also a department that can boast of extraordinary teachers, who have received recognition from national societies, our own College, and the entire University community. Professor Steve Newman was recognized by the American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies for his innovative course design, while Temple 's most coveted “Great Teaching Awards” have been presented to Joan Mellen and Phil Yanella .

We welcome undergraduate and graduate students to explore our offerings in British and American literature, international fiction and film, composition and rhetoric, theory, and creative writing. With 550 undergraduate majors and 120 graduate students, we host a lively and diverse curriculum, with faculty committed to American Studies and Women’s Studies.

Welcome to our web site and our department. Please browse our course offerings, our faculty profiles, and our departmental readings and lecture series. With a range of funding opportunities for graduate students in two distinct programs and an exciting and challenging undergraduate curriculum, we invite you to consider this as your intellectual home as you explore the enticing field of English Studies.

Sincerely,

Shannon Miller
Associate Professor
Department of English
Temple University