Department of English
Location: Ross 1284
Email: HSS@unco.edu
Website: www.unco.edu/hss/english/
Faculty: Roger Austin, Ph.D.; Stacy R. Bailey, Ph.D.; Kevin Bomely, M.A.; Kristin Bovaird-Abbo, Ph.D.; Yavanna Brownlee, Ph.D.; Joseph Chaves, Ph.D.; Sarah Cornish, Ph.D.; Molly Desjardins, Ph.D.; Lahcen E. Ezzaher, Ph.D.; Emily Golson, Ph.D.; Phillip Goodwin; Burke Hilsabeck, Ph.D.; Marc Santos, Ph.D.; Tracey A. Sedinger, Ph.D.; Tara Wood, Ph.D.; Lisa H. Zimmerman, M.F.A.
Course(s) Offered (Prefix):
Program(s) Offered:
- Master's Degree
- Graduate Certificate
The discipline of English deals with literature and language and other related subjects such as creative writing, film, folklore, myth, and cultural studies. Creative artists refuse to be limited in their subjects or approaches.
Literature, as one writer has said, is “an eloquent artistic document, infinitely varied, of mankind's journey; the autobiography of the race's soul.” The questions we ask in studying literature are as “infinitely varied” as those asked by poets, playwrights and novelists: What does it mean to be human? How is the individual related to society? By what values should one lead their life?
The study of literature and language requires rigorous discipline and sensitivity, a strict adherence to the highest standards of logic, evidence and argumentation, as well as creative response to language and form. One learns to think, research and write critically, while simultaneously developing sensitivity to language and to the complexities of people and situations.