About Us
- Each year our faculty, students, and alumni compile a record of publications, presentations, and prizes that testifies to their impressive abilities as writers, scholars and teachers.
- 94% of our 2024 graduates are engaged in post-graduation activity, primarily full-time employment and continuing education. Of those who were employed full-time, over 80% were in positions directly related to their degree.
- Our undergraduate programs specialize in Creative Writing, Literature and Language, and Rhetoric and Writing Studies, as well as courses in Pre-Secondary Education.
- Our graduate programs in Literature, Creative Writing, and English Education are home to some 50 MA, MFA, and PhD students, most supported by teaching assistantships or other scholarships.
- Our board-appointed full-time faculty members are widely published writers and scholars and award-winning teachers.
- Our Alumni Spotlight and Alumni Achievement Award Winners prove that English majors can do just about anything.
- In 2025 we gave over $50,000 in scholarships and awards to our students.
- Our vibrant chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English Honors Society, is also the heart of our student community, hosting movie nights, study sessions, writing workshops, and other social events.
- We publish Third Coast, one of the nation’s premier literary magazines, edited by our creative writing graduate students.
- We offer publishing internships with Third Coast magazine and WMU's Medieval Institute Publications.
- Our students can participate in Study Abroad programs at partner universities in the United Kingdom.
- Our Accelerated Masters (or 4 + 1) Program lets undergraduate English majors earn an M.A. with only one additional year of course work.
- Our graduate student-led Anti-Bias, Anti-Racism (ABAR) group fosters reflection and intentionality in matters of diversity, equity, and inclusion for department faculty, students, and staff.