English Department

Create Your Own Adventure

Whether you want to improve upon your ability to communicate your ideas more clearly through speaking or writing, you have an apprecation for language, or have an inquiring mind, a major or minor in English can be the key to your future success. The Department of English can help you unlock skills that are essential to possess for practically any job or profession.

Program Highlights

Diverse faculty members who are engaged and productive in their fields.
Through the CSB Literary Arts Institute, English majors learn what it means to be a working author by taking classes from visiting writers throughout the year.
Contribute to Studio One, a literary and visual arts publication, is produced annually. Students can submit poetry, short stories, photographs, paintings, and drawings to be published.
Connect with the English Department on Facebook.
Get involved with literary arts circles through Pseudonym, a student led club for campuses readers and writers.
Discover the English Web, a bi-annual online publication where you can hear from current English faculty and students, along with English alums, on their lives and works.

Overview of Program

Curriculum to include all literature written in English-e.g. works from India, Africa and the Caribbean
Broad scope of world literature while examining traditional works.
Tracks through the Major: Literature, Writing, Teaching Secondary Education, Publishing, Popular/Culture Film.

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News - Extra, extra read all about it!

	November 1st - Careers in Film and Video 7 p.m. Gorecki 204A, CSB. Listen to alumni discuss their various careers in film and video!
September 27th - Careers in Writing and Publishing Panel 7 p.m. Gorecki 204, CSB. Come hear about the interesting and unique possibilities in the writing and publishing field.
	July 29th - Recent English graduate Maggie Niebur will be traveling to Tanzania to serve as volunteers for the Benedictine Womens' Service Corps.
July 25th - "The Fountain" by English facutly member Betsy Johnson-Miller is now available in the CSB/SJU Bookstores. "The Fountain" is the second young-adult book by Johnson-Miller featuring the adventures of Litney Way and Dokken Carver, and follows "The Bracelet," which was published in 2009.
	July 12th - First group of CSB and SJU students spend semester abroad in Kolkata, India with English faculty member Madhu Mitra as program director.
June 20th - The English Department is pleased to announce Tony Civello as one of the four Orientation Coordinators for Orientation 2011. He is a rising senior and an English Major, Secondary Education Minor. Check out our English Majors who are also Bennie Orientation Leaders and Johnnie Orienation Leaders.
	June 11th - English Professor, Sister Mara Faulkner won the Foley Poetry Prize for America Magazine: the leading national Catholic magazine. Her piece is titled Things I Didn't Know I Loved.