English Language and Literature

3187 Angell Hall
435 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003

Associate  David Porter, Interim Chair (July 1, 2009-December 31, 2009)

Professor Jonathan Freedman, Associate Chair

Associate Professor Macklin Smith, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Associate Professor Anne Curzan, Director of First and Second Year Studies

Phone: (734) 764-6330

Departmental Information

Fax: (734) 763-3128

Website: www.lsa.umich.edu/english

Departmental Faculty List

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Students are encouraged to discuss their academic program and related concerns with an English concentration advisor. Appointments are scheduled on the English Department's website under academic advising. For questions of immediate concern or general questions about the concentration, students may speak with the Undergraduate Administrator by phoning (734) 764-6330 or by coming to 3187 Angell Hall.

Undergraduate Course List

Undergraduate Concentration Programs

English Language and Literature

• General Program
  • Historical Periods (British, American, and/or World Literature
    • Medieval Literature in English through c. 1500,
    • Early Modern (c.1500-1700),
    • The Long Eighteenth Century (late 17^thc. through early 19^thc.),
    • Nineteenth Century (through Modernism),
    • Twentieth and Twenty-First Century (Modernism through Contemporary),
  • Cultural and Geographic Frameworks
  • • Literatures of the Americas,
    • World Literatures in English,
  • Analytic Framework
  • Literary Criticism and Theory,
  • Genre Studies,
  • Studies in Race & Ethnicity,
  • Sexuality/Gender Studies,
  • Performance Studies,
  • Language, Writing, and Rhetoric.
• Creative Writing Program
• Honors Program

Students within the General Program are strongly encouraged to select three upper-division courses within one of the optional areas of specialization above (or one designed by a student and an advisor).

Related Undergraduate Concentration Programs

• Creative Writing and Literature (RC)
• Comparative Literature

Graduate Course List

Graduate Courses (Rackham Bulletin course list)

Graduate Programs

• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
• English, Ph.D.

Interdepartmental Graduate Programs

• English and Education, Ph.D.
• English and Women's Studies, Ph.D.

Related Graduate Programs

• Comparative Literature, Ph.D.
• American Culture, Master of Arts
• American Culture, Ph.D.
• Linguistics, Ph.D.