English
During the Covid-19 pandemic, our faculty and staff will be on campus fewer hours each day, for everyone's safety. For questions about our academic program, please contact the department chair, Harry Brown, via email (hbrown@depauw.edu). __________________________________________________________________________________ Current students should contact their individual English Department instructors directly for detailed information about course questions. Since faculty and staff have been encouraged to observe significant social distancing, many DePauw employees may be off campus and therefore unable to answer campus phones. Email will be the most reliable form of communication for the time being, unless otherwise specified by your professor.
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Pence Professor Debby Geis publishes "Read My Plate: The Literature of Food"
"Read My Plate" explores what narrators and characters (in fiction, in performance, and in the popular genre of the “food memoir”) cook and eat.
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Beginning January 4, 2021, Asbury Hall will be staffed Monday-Friday during regular office hours. If you need assistance, please visit us in the following locations.
Mondays, 8-4:30, Pam Woodall will be available in Asbury 224, 765-658-4516.
Tuesdays, 8:30-4:30, Jean Everage will be available in Asbury 115a (located in the Academic Resource Center), 765-658-4688.
Wednesdays, 8:30-11, Lynn Ishikawa will be available in Asbury 114E (located in the Academic Resource Center), phone 765-658-4496.
10:30-2, Pam Woodall will be available in Asbury 224, 765-658-4516.
12-4:30, Jean Everage will be available in Asbury 115a (located in the Academic Resource Center), 765-658-4688.
Thursdays, 8-4:30, Annie Weltz will be available in Asbury 333, 765-658-4675 (office will be closed for lunch from 12-1).
Fridays, 8-4:30, Annie Weltz will be available in Asbury 333, 765-658-4675 (office will be closed for lunch from 12-1).
English is a discipline that works to understand the world through language and with language.
Students come together with scholars and writers in small classes where together they read closely, construct arguments, and hone their critical and creative skills. Our literature majors develop a keen understanding of literature’s ability to move, to enlighten, to liberate, to provide insight into the human condition. Our writing majors aim to take literature into the future, developing their own voices with an eye toward composing prose, poetry, and dramatic texts that come from their own imaginations. Beyond the classroom, our faculty and students collaborate on scholarship and creative work, engaging both the campus and the wider community.
As a department, we provide students with the written and verbal communication skills to be engaged members of society, regardless of the professional path they choose. After DePauw, these paths are virtually limitless. We claim alumni in the arts, business, education, law, media, and the sciences. We teach students how to think, speak, read, and write about meaningful issues, and how to communicate with precision and grace. We produce agile minds: the foundation of a liberal arts education in the twenty-first century.