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English Language & Literature
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News & Events
LSA Spring Reading List: National Poetry Month 2026 Edition
Seven vital, critically acclaimed poetry collections, from LSA faculty, alumni, and a current student
Jonathan Holland named 2026 Arts Ambassador
Holland will collaborate with U-M’s Prison Creative Arts Project to lead a two-day writing workshop series with incarcerated participants in Upper Peninsula correctional facilities.
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
May
31
Multi
Digital IDEAS Summer Institute
6:00 PM
1040
LSA Building
Sep
16
Shakespearean Studies Biannual Lecture in Honor of Barbara Hodgdon
Guest Speaker Andrew Hartley aka AJ Hartley
5:00 PM
3222
Angell Hall
Sep
25
Heberle Lecture and Award Ceremony
Guest Speaker Amanda Anderson (Brown)
10:30 AM
3222
Angell Hall
