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English Language & Literature
News & Events
Waterline Launch at Literati
Fiction at Literati: Aram Mrjoian in conversation with Julie Buntin Tuesday, June 3 @ 6:30pm
Aisha Sabatini Sloan wins 2025 Whiting Award
Since 1985, the Whiting Foundation has supported creative writing through the Whiting Awards, which are given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
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 First Year Writing Program: eng.writing.program@umich.edu
Graduate Office: graduate.english@umich.edu
Hopwood Room: hopwoodprogram@umich.edu
