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English Language & Literature
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News & Events
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What is English?
Our Department is a vibrant meeting ground for people who care about the English language and everything humans can do and have long done with it. We investigate its availability for those who would impose, those who would resist, and those who would debate power of many kinds. We track the development of English and its movement across the globe. We encounter English on the page, the stage and the screen. We relish its capacities to awaken perception and elude simplification. We invest daily in the conviction that words matter.
Contact us
Undergraduate Office: undergraduate.english@umich.edu
English Department Writing Program: eng.writing.program@umich.edu
Graduate Office: graduate.english@umich.edu
Hopwood Room: hopwoodprogram@umich.edu
Events
Dec
04
Multi
Hopwood Tea
3:00 PM
1176 (Hopwood Room)
Angell Hall
Dec
04
Reading and Q&A with Brenda Hillman
Zell Visiting Writers Series
5:30 PM
Stern Auditorium
Museum of Art
Dec
05
Craft Lecture by Brenda Hillman
Zell Visiting Writers Series
10:00 AM
Anderson ABCDE
Michigan Union
Dec
05
Multi
Grad Chat with the Chair
1:00 PM
Virtual
