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Our Mission, Our Values

The Penn State English Department is committed to creativity, rhetorical and civic deliberation, scholarly inquiry, and an openness to new ideas.

Welcome to Penn State English, a department of pathbreaking scholars, magnificent teachers, talented students, and accomplished alumni. Our faculty—many well-known scholars and national leaders among them—have set a standard of excellence for the department and for the University. Indeed, in the most recent National Research Council ranking of doctoral programs (2010), Penn State English placed near the top, behind only Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, Michigan, and Columbia.