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Write and Explore in Ireland
Students in this summer program visit key cultural and historic sites in Ireland and study the rich tradition of Irish literature and art.
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Penn State Digital English Studio Wins Award
The team received the inaugural Janice M. Lauer Institutional Achievement Award from the Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition.
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PWR Approach to Artificial Intelligence
The Department of English's Program in Writing and Rhetoric has prepared an approach for exploring the role of artificial intelligence in writing instruction.
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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.
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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.

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Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events

American Working-Class Art and Literature Now
April 19, 2024
noon–1:00 p.m.
2024 Center for Democratic Deliberation Kenneth Burke Lecture: Eric King Watts
April 17, 2024
4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
Mary E. Rolling Reading Series: Christine Hume
April 11, 2024
6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
“Call if You Can: Emergency, Equity, and Disability”
April 11, 2024
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Grucci Room, 102 Burrowes Building
The Comparative Literature Luncheon Series: Lisa Siraganian
April 8, 2024
12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
102 Kern Building
“TikTok Wars and the New Cultural Front”
April 4, 2024
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Grucci Room, 102 Burrowes Building
The Comparative Literature Luncheon Series: Richard Purcell
April 1, 2024
12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
102 Kern Building
“Active Learning in The New College Classroom”
March 28, 2024
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
102 Burrowes Building, Grucci Room
Mary E. Rolling Reading Series: Julia Kasdorf and C.S. Giscombe
March 21, 2024
6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
Digital Culture + Media Initiative presents: Anna Watkins Fisher
March 21, 2024
3:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Grucci Room, 102 Burrowes Building
Center for Democratic Deliberation Lecture: Ekaterina V. Haskins
March 20, 2024
noon–1:30 p.m.
Grucci Room, 102 Burrowes Building
Field Work: Journal Editors on Shaping Intellectual Life in the Academy
March 18, 2024
3:00 p.m.–4:45 p.m.
Dewey Room, Collaborative Commons, Pattee Library
Workshop: Active Learning with Confidence (and without the Burnout)
February 29, 2024
10:30 a.m.–noon
102 Burrowes Building, Grucci Room
“The Art of Growing Up”
February 28, 2024
4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Mary E. Rolling Reading Series: Matthew Salesses
February 22, 2024
6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
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Latest News

Latest News

Courtney Murray was awarded the American Antiquarian Society’s Jay Last Short-term fellowship.

Congratulations to Nick Beishline, whose story, “All the Leaves in the Trees,” will be published this fall in the anthology Romancing the Rainbow (Knight Writing Press).

Congratulations to David L. Williams, whose short play “The Craving” was recently published in the first issues of the literary journal The Corpus Callosum out of Hastings, Nebraska (published by Corpus Callosum Press).

Suresh Canagarajah has been promoted to Evan Pugh Professor of Applied Linguistics and English!

Congratulations to Stuart Selber, who was on the keynote panel for the 2024 Unizin Virtual Summit.

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Graduate Office
403 Burrowes Building
814.863.3069

Undergraduate Office
434 Burrowes Building
814.863.0258

Program in Writing & Rhetoric Office
434 Burrowes Building
814.863.3066
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