Department of English
FROM LITERATURE TO WRITING TO LINGUISTICS:
EXPLORE OUR MANY EXCITING PROGRAMS
The English Department offers degree-concentrations in a variety of specialized areas of study: literature, creative writing, digital technology, and pedagogy. Information about our Undergraduate Program..
The Department of English offers five minors: Children’s Literature and Childhood Studies, Diverse Literatures and Cultural Studies, English, Linguistics, and Technical and Professional Writing. Information on English Minors.
We offer an M.A. in English and Certificates in Applied Linguistics as well as Technical/Professional Writing. Information about our Graduate Programs.
About Us
The English Department offers a variety of courses in creative writing, linguistics, literature, pedagogy, rhetoric, and technical communication. These courses foster students’ abilities to think critically, to read analytically, and to communicate effectively in oral and written form. Because these advanced literary skills are in high demand, our former students have found careers in fields such as teaching, technical/professional writing, editing, publishing, advertising, public relations, and nonprofits, as well as in business, financial services, and banking. Others have pursued advanced degrees in literature, law, medicine, teaching, and business administration.
recent news
The 2020 U.S. presidential election results are dominating the national conversation. What can be learned from the animal kingdom about how animal societies make decisions and resolve conflict? College of Liberal Arts & Sciences researchers Alan Rauch, English; Stanley Schneider, Biological Sciences; and Lydia Light, Anthropology, offer their insights. Rauch earned degrees in zoology and […]
Professor Aaron Gwyn’s new novel. All God’s Children, has just been publish by Europa Editions. The novel is an historical epic that spans thirty years in the lives of three people – an illiterate frontiersman, a runaway teenage slave, and a gay young man fleeing scandal. All of the characters are searching for the kind […]
Congratulations to Dr. Lara Vetter, who has led the Department’s Graduate program with tireless energy and a spirit of integrity and progress, for being the recipient of the 2020 Thomas L. Reynolds Leadership Award. Vetter has sustained and elevated our graduate degree to one of the premier MA programs on campus. She has been instrumental […]
Lexi Reed, soon to graduate from English program, has been admitted into the prestigious Young Adult writing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier, VT. She will be working with Nova Ren Suma, author of Imaginary Girls (2011), The Walls Around Us (2015), and A Room Away from the Wolves (2018). Congratulations […]
Professor Lewis, named one of Charlotte’s 40 under 40, is featured in the most recent issue of Inside UNC Charlotte, take a look. Janaka Lewis – Literacy & Leadership for Girls and Women
The Department of English mourns the loss of Professor Emerita Mary T. Harper who was instrumental in developing African-American Studies in the department and across the university. Her energy, determination, and work eventually resulted in the Harvey Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture. For more infor mation about Prof. Harper visit here.
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Department of English
9201 University City Blvd.
Fretwell 275
Charlotte, NC 28223
Tel: 704‑687‑0011
Fax: 704‑687‑1401
Department Chair:
Kirk Melnikoff [kbmelnik@charlotte.edu]
Associate Chair:
Bryn Chancellor [mchancel@charlotte.edu]
Monica Burke [mfalston@charlotte.edu ],
Business Services Coordinator
Graduate:
Meghan Barnes [mbarne56@charlotte.edu], Director of Graduate Studies,
Undergraduate:
Clayton Tarr [ctarr2@charlotte.edu], Director of Undergraduate Studies
Gina Karp [Gina.Karp@charlotte.edu], Academic Advisor
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