English Department
100 E Seminary St
333 Asbury Hall
Greencastle, IN 46135
P: (765) 658-4675
E: EnglishDept@depauw.edu
A Midwestern Review
A Midwestern Review started in 1988. We strive to feature the best works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography by students attending DePauw University. This review, and website, is produced entirely by students.
Thurs., April 6th, 11:30am-12:30pm: Julian Auditorium
Discussion with poet Camille Dungy and Professors Natalia Vargas Marquez and Karin Wimbley. Lunch provided; please RSVP (Campus Labs), so we can plan food sustainably. Sponsored by the Kelly Writers Series and Environmental Fellows Program.
Literature and Philosophy double major Nina Štular '22 has won the prestigious award for 2022. The Murad is awarded to the graduating senior who has the most scholarly and artistic achievements in their time at DePauw.
Kelly Writers Series: Wed., April 5th at 7:30pm. THOMPSON RECITAL HALL
A University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State, Dungy’s further honors include the 2021 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, two NAACP Image Award nominations, and fellowships from the NEA in both prose and poetry.
DePauw produces a high number of Fulbrights, Gilmans, and other competitive awards. English majors are regularly among the top performers. Click below for more information on awards and fellowships.
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.
