Students and faculty in the English Department study traditional British and American literatures as well as the great variety of literatures from around the globe. Writing is integral to every course in the English major, and students engage in critical and creative writing projects of varying lengths. While developing skills in careful reading and research, many students take poetry or fiction workshops and take courses in argumentation, screenwriting, or business writing.
Many courses use new media and film, and focus on visual rhetoric and cultural studies. In theoretical courses students explore perspectives ranging from critical race theory, to feminist criticism, postcolonialism, semiotics, and queer theory.
Submissions from 1996
Truth is Stranger than Non-Fiction: Gender, Religion, and Contradiction in the Works of Rose Terry Cooke, Eileen Razzari Elrod
Introduction to Through A Glass Darkly: Essays in the Religious Imagination, John C. Hawley
Nuruddin Farah Orality, Tribalism, and the Postcolonial Search for Ultimate Reality and Meaning, John C. Hawley
South African Writing in English, John C. Hawley
The Re Racination of Driss Chraïbi: A Hajj in Search of Mecca, John C. Hawley
Submissions from 1995
‘Exactly Like MyFather’: Feminist Hermeneutics inHarriet Beecher Stowe’s Non-Fiction, Eileen Razzari Elrod
"Mouth Put in the Dust": Personal Authority and Biblical Resonance in Anne Bradstreet’s Grief Poems, Eileen Razzari Elrod
Bell, Book, and Candle: Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things and the Exorcism of Victorian Sentiment, John C. Hawley
Ben Okri’s Spirit Child: Abiku Migration and Postmodernity, John C. Hawley
The Battle Rages On: The Psychomachia and The Faerie Queene, Book I, Aparajita Nanda
Submissions from 1994
Literature and the Evolution of Religious Discourse: A Concluding Essay, John C. Hawley
Mongo Beti and Jean Marc Éla: Literary and Christian Liberation in Cameroon, John C. Hawley
Popular Literature’s Contribution to the Religious Imagination, John C. Hawley
We Wretched of the Earth: The Search for a Language of Justice, John C. Hawley
Submissions from 1993
Loopholes of Resistance: Harriet Jacobs' Slave Narrative and the Critique of Agency in Foucault, Michelle Burnham
The Journey Between: Liminality and Dialogism in Mary White Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative, Michelle Burnham
Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Christian Imagination, John C. Hawley
Robert Antoni’s Divina Trace and the Womb of Place, John C. Hawley
Submissions from 1992
Ethics, Education, and 'Political Correctness, Marilyn Edelstein
Charles Kingsley and Literary Theory of the 1850’s, John C. Hawley
Charles Kingsley and the Via Media, John C. Hawley
Jose Maria Arguedas, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and the Search for a Language of Justice, John C. Hawley
The Muscular Christian as Schoolmarm, John C. Hawley
Academic Tenure: A Winter's Meditation, William Rewak
Easter: Has it Made a Difference?, William Rewak
Three Graves, William Rewak
Submissions from 1991
Baptizing the Victorian Epimetheus, John C. Hawley
Charles Kingsley and the Book of Nature, John C. Hawley
Newman and the Anxiety of Influence, John C. Hawley
The Pillars of Durham, William Rewak
Submissions from 1990
"Dark lady and fair man": the love triangle in Shakespeare's sonnets and Ulysses, Michelle Burnham
Lo fantástico y la historia: La polémica entre La sombra del caudillo y Tirano Banderas, Juan Velasco
Submissions from 1989
Mary Barton: The Inside View from Without, John C. Hawley
The Water Babies as Catechetical Paradigm, John C. Hawley
Reflections of a Jesuit's Early Years, William Rewak
Submissions from 1987
Can There be Dissent in Catholic Universities?, William Rewak
Submissions from 1986
Responses to Charles Kingsley’s Attack on Political Economy., John C. Hawley
Catholic Universities: Pluralism or Uniformity?, William Rewak
In Search of Humanity, William Rewak
Iona: Touchstone for Reconciliation, William Rewak
Submissions from 1985
Abortion: Three Comments, William Rewak
A Meditation in St. Ives, William Rewak
Focal Point, William Rewak
Helen, William Rewak
Two Weasels, William Rewak
What is Our Future?, William Rewak
Submissions from 1984
The Function of Self-Consciousness in John Barth's Chimera, Marilyn Edelstein
In Memory of Father Terry, William Rewak
Submissions from 1983
Lunacy, William Rewak
Submissions from 1982
A China Diary, William Rewak
Since You Know, William Rewak
Submissions from 1981
Commentary on Bishops' Pastoral Letter on Catholic Higher Education, William Rewak
Ghosts, William Rewak
Saints, Diamonds and Bears, William Rewak
Submissions from 1980
Hamlet Visits Hartford, Connecticut, William Rewak
He Helped Us Reach, William Rewak
Looking into the 80's, William Rewak
Submissions from 1979
Illusion, William Rewak
Our Dedicated Administrators, William Rewak
Submissions from 1978
Education - Struggle for Unity, William Rewak
Submissions from 1977
Book III of Paradise Lost: Milton's Satisfaction Theory of the Redemption, William Rewak
Le Morte d’Arthur, William Rewak
Necessary Humanism, William Rewak
Submissions from 1976
James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The Shadow Over America, William Rewak
Submissions from 1975
Remembering Father Fagothey, William Rewak
Submissions from 1973
James Agee's The Morning Watch: Through Darkness to Light, William Rewak
Submissions from 1969
The Art of Forgiveness, William Rewak
Submissions from 1966
Why Christ Had to Die, William Rewak
Submissions from 1965
Mortification: Entry into the Christ-Mystery, William Rewak
The 'Reign of the Saints' in the Apocalypse, William Rewak
Submissions from 1964
Symbolism and the Eschatological Discourses, William Rewak
Submissions from 1957
“The Potting Shed”: Maturation of Graham Greene’s Vision, William Rewak
