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 2024
Revision as Protecting What is Important, Cruz Medina
Submissions from 2022
Composing in the Discomfort of Institutional Violence, Cruz Medina
Submissions from 2021
Core Advanced Writing: Rhetoric of Storytelling, Cruz Medina
Submissions from 2020
Teaching first-year composition through COVID-19, Theresa Conefrey
Reflecting, Integrating, and Communicating Knowledge Through ePortfolios to Increase Civic and Scientific Literacy, Theresa Conefrey and Davida Smyth
“Who Wants to Live Forever?” Andrew Holleran, Garth Greenwell, and The Gayest Decade That Never Ended, John C. Hawley
“She Is Not Thoroughly Practical”: High School Alumnae Shaping Domestic Science in the Progressive Era, Amy J. Lueck
Representing Indigenous Histories Using XR Technologies in the Classroom, Amy J. Lueck and Lee M. Panich
“Publishing Is Mystical”: The Latinx Caucus Bibliography, Top-Tier Journals, and Minority Scholarship, Cruz Medina and Perla Luna
Educational Progress‐Time and the Proliferation of Dual Enrollment, Brice Nordquist and Amy J. Lueck
Submissions from 2019
Getting beyond "both sides": A Faculty-librarian pilot to explore critical approaches to curriculum and assessment, Nicole Branch, Julia Voss, and Loring Pfeiffer
Jean Raspail, Michel Houellebecq, and Jenny Erpenbeck: Acknowledging the Barbarian Within, John C. Hawley
“Have Fun in the Sun!” The (Im)personal Archive of High School Yearbooks, Amy J. Lueck
No Longer Here: Remembering Japanese American Internment Through School Yearbooks, Amy J. Lueck
Beginning at the End: Reimagining the Dissertation Committee, Reimagining Careers, Amy J. Lueck and Beth Boehm
Inclusivity in the Archives: Expanding Undergraduate Pedagogies for Diversity and Inclusion, Amy J. Lueck, Beverlyn Law, and Isabella Zhang
Frameworks for Collaboration: Articulating Information Literacy, and Rhetoric and Writing Goals in the Archives, Amy J. Lueck and Nadia Nasr
Decolonial Potential in a Multilingual FYC, Cruz Medina
Rewriting the Human-Animal Divide: Humanism and Octavia Butler's "Amborg", Aparajita Nanda
The Pastiche of Discrepant “Minoritarian” Voices in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss, Aparajita Nanda
Getting Beyond “Both Sides”: FYC Instructors & Librarians Working Together to Cultivate Critical Information Literacy with Popular Sources, Loring Pfeiffer, Julia Voss, and Nicole Branch
Building Bridges: Creating Connections by Building Our Portfolios, Candyce Reynolds, Gail Ring, Theresa Conefrey, Allie Davidson, and Heather Stuart
Researching Writing Program Administration Expertise in Action: A Case Study of Collaborative Problem Solving as Transdisciplinary Practice, Tricia Serviss and Julia Voss
Submissions from 2018
Teaching teachers to teach writing, critical thinking, and information literacy: A case study of a faculty learning community as a campus-wide pedagogical intervention strategy, Christine Bachen, Nicole Branch, Laura Doyle, Tricia Serviss, and Julia Voss
Community and Conscience Formation, Phyllis R. Brown
Building Bridges with ePortfolios for First-Generation College Students, Theresa Conefrey
Supporting First-Generation Students’ Adjustment to College With High-Impact Practices, Theresa Conefrey
New Puritans, Eileen Razzari Elrod
“Higher” School: Nineteenth-Century High Schools and the Secondary-College Divide, Amy J. Lueck
How High Schools Shaped American Cities, Amy J. Lueck
"Several Sigourneys": Circulation, Reprint Culture, and Sigourney’s Educational Prose, Amy J. Lueck
A Response to Kim Hensley Owens’s “In Lak’ech, The Chica no Clap, and Fear : A Partial Rhetorical Autopsy of Tucson’s Now-Illegal Ethnic Studies Classes”, Aja Y. Martinez, Cruz Medina, and Gloria J. Howerton
Digital Latin@ Storytelling: testimonio as Multi-modal Resistance, Cruz Medina
Validating the Consequences of Social Justice Pedagogy: Explicit Values in Course-Based Grading Contracts, Cruz Medina
Introduction: Coded in Technology Literacy, Cruz Medina and Octavio Pimentel
The Sacramental Nature of Community, Jennifer C. Merritt, Andrea E. Brewster, Irene E. Cermeño, and Phyllis R. Brown
Happily, William Rewak
Essence of Mom 2.0: Media, Memory, and Community across an Extended African American Family, Julia Voss and Lillie R. Jenkins
Submissions from 2017
LEADing the Way with ePortfolios in a First-Generation Learning Community, Theresa Conefrey
Coping with a Failed Revolution, John C. Hawley
Khaled Hosseini, Keigo Higashino, and Zoe Ferraris: Social Concealment, Personal Revelation, and Community Guilt, John C. Hawley
Mourning and Melancholy in Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance, John C. Hawley
What Does Young South Asia Want? Can Chetan Bhagat, Mohsin Hamid, and Arundhati Roy tell us?, John C. Hawley
“Classbook Sense”: Genre and Girls’ School Yearbooks in the Early-Twentieth-Century American High School, Amy J. Lueck
High School Girls”: Women’s Higher Education at the Louisville Female High School, Amy J. Lueck
Identity, Decolonialism, and Digital Archives, Cruz Medina
Trinh Minh-ha’s Tale of Love: A Narrative of Resistance, Aparajita Nanda
Little Things, William Rewak
Submissions from 2016
Graduate Student Peer Mentoring Programs: Benefitting Students, Faculty and Academic Programs, Beth Boehm and Amy J. Lueck
Oceanic Turns and American Literary History in Global Context, Michelle Burnham
Technology in the College Classroom: Crisis and Opportunity, Theresa Conefrey
Day of the Dead: Decolonial Expressions in Pop de los Muertos, Cruz Medina
Poch@: Latin@ Blogs in the Decolonial Archives, Cruz Medina
Bethlehem, William Rewak
Submissions from 2015
Introduction to Forum: The Hemispheric French Atlantic, Michelle Burnham
Literary Recovery in an Age of Austerity: A Review of Early American Reprints and Just Teach One, Michelle Burnham
Obeah’s unproductive bodies: a response to “Obeah: knowledge, power, and writing in the early Atlantic World”, Michelle Burnham
Gay and Lesbian Culture and Politics, John C. Hawley
Postcolonial Theory, John C. Hawley
Teaching Jimmy Santiago Baca, Cruz Medina
Contexts of Lived Realities in SB 1070 Arizona: A Response to Asenas and Johnson's"Economic Globalization and the'Given Situation'", Cruz Medina and Aya J. Martinez
The Absent Presence and the Art of Autobiography in Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father, Aparajita Nanda
The Black Frontier, Aparajita Nanda
Can a Squirrel and a Monkey Be Friends?, William Rewak
Is Stephen Hawking Right about Death?, William Rewak
SCU: Silicon Valley’s First Start-Up, William Rewak
Yes, Art is Essential to Learning, William Rewak
If They Kill Me, Juan Velasco
To Teach, Critique, and Compose: Representing Computers and Composition through the CIWIC/DMAC Institute, Julia Voss
Reanimating Ghost Editions, Reorienting the Early American Novel, Karen A. Weyler and Michelle Burnham
Submissions from 2014
The Bede Page in a Saxon Manuscript, Phyllis Brown
Thinking Otherwise about God, Marx, and Eagleton: A Response to Terry Eagleton, Marilyn Edelstein
Chattering Classes/Twittering Revolutionaries: Journalism, Social Media, and the Arab Spring, John C. Hawley
The Historical in/as the Responsive, Amy J. Lueck
Tweeting Collaborative Identity: Race, ICTs and Performing Latinidad, Cruz Medina
“(Who Discovered) America”: Ozomatli and the Mestiz@ Rhetoric of Hip Hop, Cruz Medina
Poetry vs. The Silicon Chip, William Rewak
The Old Chair, William Rewak
Who Put That Crease in Your Soul?, William Rewak
Mapping a geography of hell: evil, neoliberalism, and the femicides in Roberto Bolaño's 2666, Juan Velasco and Tanya Schmidt
Introduction: Questioning, Challenging and Advocating: Advancing Knowledge in Composition and Rhetoric, Julia Voss and Beverly J. Moss
Submissions from 2013
Early America and the Revolutionary Pacific, Michelle Burnham
Is There an Indigenous Gothic?, Michelle Burnham
Distancing the Past: New Forms of Discomfort with AIDS in the U.S, John C. Hawley
The Gods Who Speak in Many Voices, and in None: African Novelists on Indigenous and Colonial Religion, John C. Hawley
Available Technologies for Changing Student Needs: Using Technology to Reach Graduate Students on our Campuses, Amy J. Lueck
Writing a Translingual Script: Closed Captions in the English Multilingual Hearing Classroom, Amy J. Lueck
Nuestros Refranes: Culturally Relevant Writing in Tucson High Schools, Cruz Medina
Response: An Invitation to a Too-Long Postponed Conversation: Race and Composition by Octavio Pimentel, Cruz Medina
The Family Profession, Cruz Medina
Power, Politics, and Domestic Desire in Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood, Aparajita Nanda
The Egret, William Rewak
The First Jesuit Pope, William Rewak
The Maker, William Rewak
Submissions from 2012
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (ca 935-ca. 975), Phyllis Brown
