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English Language & Literature
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News & Events
CEW+ Scholars and Fellows | 2025-26
CEW+ awards over $1M in scholarship and fellowship funds to 132 U-M students
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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 First Year Writing Program: eng.writing.program@umich.edu
Graduate Office: graduate.english@umich.edu
Hopwood Room: hopwoodprogram@umich.edu
Events
Nov
05
Multi
ASC Event. African Women Film Festival 2025
Voices of Resilience: The Power of Storytelling in African Cinema
8:00 AM
Vandenberg, Henderson, and Hussey
Michigan League
Nov
06
Graduate Student Writing Workshop
2:30 PM
3241
Angell Hall
Nov
06
Multi
Hopwood Tea
3:00 PM
1176 (Hopwood Room)
Angell Hall
Nov
06
DISCO Network Presents - Diaspora Wars and Going 50/50: Sowing Disunity in Black Communities Through Digital Propaganda
Brooklyne Gipson, Jamilah Lemieux, and AE Stevenson in conversation with Catherine Knight Steele
4:00 PM
2435
North Quad
