Department of English

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The Department of English brings together scholars committed to the study of language, literature, and writing. Our graduates are prepared for a variety of professional and educational endeavors, including careers in law, editing and publishing, teaching, corporate and not-for-profit management, consulting, information technology, and graduate study in English and other disciplines. Students of English learn to read accurately, write clearly, and think analytically in the department's first-year composition program, B.A. in English, and in four graduate programs.

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Highlights

October 2009

The Florida Review has announced its Editors' Awards winners for 2009. See a list of winners on the journal's Web site. The Florida Review, a literary journal published twice yearly by the University of Central Florida, publishes poetry and prose from emerging and established writers. [Read More]

September 2009

On September 25, Touchstone Pictures releases The Surrogates, a major motion picture based on the work of UCF alum Robert Venditti. Venditti wrote the 2003 comic book series of the same name that was illustrated by Brett Weldele and published by Top Shelf Productions. [Read More]

Recent Faculty Publications

Mark L Kamrath

The Historicism of Charles Brockden Brown: Radical History and the Early Republic. Kent: Kent State UP (2010).

Kevin Meehan

People Get Ready: African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2009.

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