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
Allison Hutchcraft’s poem “Though from Here I Can’t Smell the Smoke” was awarded the third place prize in the highly competitive 2023 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Competition. These prizes “honor exceptional poems that help readers recognize the gravity of the vulnerable state of our environment” according to the Academy of American Poets who sponsors these […]
Professor West’s Theodore Roosevelt on Books and Reading brings together for the first time Roosevelt’s writings about his experiences as a reader, his scholarly essays about literature and literary history, and his exuberant reviews of some of the books that he especially liked. A sister volume to Mark I. West’s Theodore Roosevelt and His Library […]
Congratulations to Dr. JuliAnna Ávila on receiving the 2023 Divergent Publication Award for Excellence in Literacy in a Digital Age Research for her book Critical Digital Literacies: Boundary-Crossing Practices, which was published by Routledge in 2021. This award was established in 2018 by the Initiative for 21st Century Literacies Research to recognize the most outstanding […]
Creative Writing instructor Paula Martinac was recently awarded the 2023 William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant for an unpublished traditional mystery novel. This grant comes with a cash prize that will fund her attendance at the Malice Domestic conference in Bethesda, MD, April 28-30. Malice Domestic is an organization that supports the writing and reading of […]
Please read this April 2023 article in Exchange on CharlOz. CharlOz’s three-day interdisciplinary festival (September 27-29, 2024) explores how L. Frank Baum’s fairy tale timelessly reflects American values with its vast array of characters. Even as the Oz theme inspires new interpretations, it remains relevant, celebrating all representations of non-traditional characters. As Oz magic continues […]
Dr. Janaka Lewis’ most recent book, Light and Legacies: Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation, is forthcoming from The University of South Carolina Press. The publisher describes the book as follows: Lewis “examines Black girlhood in American literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The representation of Black girlhood in contemporary literature has long […]
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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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