Welcome
The English Department at the University of Georgia is a diverse scholarly community of over 40 faculty, 80 graduate teaching assistants, 120 graduate students, and more than 500 undergraduate majors and minors held together by a common commitment to preserving, transmitting, and extending the rich cultural legacy of the English language. At the core of our discipline lie the complex skills of reading and writing, and though these can be productively applied to a wide range of professional goals in the sciences, in the arts, in business or in government our own work as scholars and teachers strives to expand and to deepen our understanding of the critical and creative imagination.
A sympathetic participation in the verbal worlds of other times and places, drawing on the full range of linguistic tools, historical knowledge, and interpretive experience at our disposal, allows our students to enhance their appreciation for expressive possibility. The diversity of the faculty's research interests, teaching philosophies, and scholarly methods helps ensure that an English major at the University of Georgia develops a sophisticated, practical grasp of the central role that language plays in the creation and preservation of a vibrant cultural community.
 Wednesday, November 25 (12:00 AM) University-wide furlough In order to save the University money at a time of financial crisis, staff and faculty at the University of Georgia (including the English department) will be on furlough (mandatory unpaid leave) today. Happy Thanksgiving! Wednesday, December 02 (12:05 PM) Advisory Committee Meeting The Advisory Committee to the Head will meet at 12.05 pm in Room 261. Monday , December 07 (12:15 PM) Undergraduate Committee Meeting The Undergrad Committee will meet in Park 261. Agenda items include voting on proposed directed reading and thesis courses and discussing and reviewing proposed topics courses in the Undergrad curriculum. Wednesday, December 09 (12:05 PM) Faculty Meeting The faculty of the English department will meet at 12.05 pm in Room 144. |  |
  Christy Desmet and Anne Williams Shakespearean Gothic This collection of essays explores the thesis that Shakespeare, as we know him today, was born in the eighteenth century, at the same time as the Gothic tradition, first named by Horace Walpole in 1764. The two are inextricable. Writers interested in pursuing ‘Gothic’ themes and forms (the supernatural events and generic hybrids decried by French neoclassicism) justified their aesthetic choices as following the example of their great – and emphatically English – precursor. They cited him in their epigraphs and appropriated his narratives. They echoed his language and imitated his dramatic devices. Like Shakespeare, they explored the ways in which familial ghosts may haunt the present. Like him, they mixed modes and genres: tragedy and comedy, verse and prose. Together, critics of Shakespeare and creators of the Gothic (often one and the same author) not only canonized England’s secular saint and created a new literary mode; they collectively initiated a mode of subjectivity that remains with us today in both high and popular culture. |
  Study in Cortona in the Spring
ENGL3300, Women in Literature. English Poetesses; Italian Art
The Study Abroad Program in Cortona invites applications from juniors and seniors, as well as from sophomores with solid credentials. |