English
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Oregon State University's English Department offers students the opportunity to pursue courses in American and British Literature, comparative and global literatures, creative writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction), rhetoric and composition (including technical and media writing), studies in gender and literature, film, pedagogy, and literary and cultural theory.
English has been part of the curriculum since the founding of the university in 1868. In the 1960s, the English Department became the first liberal arts department to offer a bachelor's degree.
Novelist Bernard Malamud was an English professor at Oregon State College from 1949 to 1961. During this time he wrote three novels: The Natural (1952), The Assistant (1957), and A New Life (1961) as well as a collection of short stories, The Magic Barrel (1959) for which he received the National Book Award. He was presented OSU's Distinguished Service Award in 1969. A collection of photographs of Malamud can be found in the University Archives collection.
In recent years, the English Department has developed and expanded its graduate programs, and numerous faculty have been honored with college, university, and professional teaching awards. The department boasts two University Distinguished Professors and the endowed Oregon Professor of English. Through their research, English faculty have produced and disseminated significant new knowledge in British, American, and World literatures, and in Creative Writing, Composition and Rhetoric, Criticism, and Film and Cultural Studies.
Programs in English help develop communications skills that are essential in a variety of professions and that inform the work of many disciplines in the humanities. Studies in literature, film and culture, rhetoric and writing, and creative writing significantly further the arts and humanities as cornerstones of social and cultural enhancement, and increase students' abilities to think broadly, address complex problems, and adapt to diverse environments. In addition, graduate studies offer a number of advantages for the practical student:
* training and experience in writing, preparing students for careers in magazine writing and other journalism, arts administration, publishing, pre-law, and grant-preparation.
* training and experience in teaching.
* study of literature of all kinds, including American, British, Multicultural and Global Literatures, ancient, and contemporary.
* study in the nature, means, and methods of representation (of ideas, cultural products, literary, political, and economic models).
Students who specialize in English at the graduate level are valued throughout the professional world for their communication skills, their analytical and research abilities, and the sensitivity they develop toward the English language and comparative literatures. Courses in the graduate program are taught by scholars who have distinguished themselves in their respective research areas. Recent work by faculty and graduate students intersects with work in cultural history, international relations, sociology, psychology, law, politics, theology, and many other fields.
Programs
Undergraduate[1]: English Major[2], English Minor[3], Writing Minor[4]
Graduate[5]: Creative Writing MFA[6], English MA[7]
Faculty
Anderson, Chris
Barbour, Richmond
Betjemann, Peter
Campbell, Elizabeth
Daugherty, Tracy
Davison, Neil
Ede, Lisa
Gottlieb, Evan
Helle, Anita
Holmberg, Karen
Lawler, Barry
Leeson, Ted
Lewis, Jon
Oriard, Michael
Rice, Laura
Robinson, David
Sandor, Marjorie
Schwartz, Robert
Scribner, Keith
Tolar Burton, Vicki
Williams, Tara
