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Welcome to the Department of English Language and Literature, home to a vibrant community of award-winning faculty and students. The department's commitment to excellence in teaching and research is supported by extraordinary campus and community resources, which provide a unique range of learning experiences.

The Department offers programs of study that lead to the BA, MA, MFA, and PhD degrees.

Undergraduate students may choose the Creative Writing emphasis or Language and Literature program. Minors are available in Creative Writing, Language and Literature, Writing, and Manuscript, Print Culture, and Editing.

Graduate students may choose the MFA in Creative Writing or the MA in English, which focuses on literary study. Two additional tracks are available for the MA, including Language and Literature, and Manuscript, Print Culture, and Editing. The Department also participates in the University's Interdisciplinary PhD program.

Our faculty has published more than thirty books in the past five years and won NEA, NEH, and other fellowships and honors. The Department is also home to the award-winning literary journal New Letters and the book publisher BkMk Press, for which students can intern and gain real-world experience. Other internships are available through Hallmark and Andrews McNeel Publishing.

Our alumni have gone on to top graduate programs in creative writing and literature. They enjoy successful careers in education, publishing, public relations, marketing, law, business, and other professions requiring excellent verbal, written, and communication skills.

Upcoming Events

Thursday, May 7
7:00 p.m.
Christie Hodgen & Seido Ray Ronci
The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania Avenue

Friday, May 22
8:00 p.m.
Crystal Field Scholarship Reading
The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania Avenue

 

 

 

Fall 2009 English Department Newsletter Issue 1

Congratulations

The winners of the Sosland Awards for 2009 are Ben Moats and Henri Rix-Wood.

Sosland Celebration of Writing

Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 2:30pm. Room 106, University Center, UMKC Campus.

This is a celebration of the composition program, honering the winners of the Sosland Teaching Awards and the students whose work was published in our 2009 edition of The Sosland Journal.

10/23

It is with great pleasure that I announce this year's two Sosland Teaching Award winners: Henri Rix-Wood (PhD level, $1000) and Ben Moats (Master's level, $1000).
 
The awards were based on the outstanding teaching portfolios each of these candidates submitted. Special thanks is also due to Joan Dean and Sheila Honig, both of whom served along with me as judges for this year's competition.
 
Both winners will receive scholarships for $1000 in recognition of their accomplishment, and will be honored at the upcoming Sosland Celebration of Writing on Thursday, Nov 5 at 2 pm (program beginning at 2:30) in 106 University Center.  Please join us in recognizing their imaginative teaching at the Celebration.

 

 

 

4/09
New Letters magazine awarded the annual Stanley Hanks Prize, from the St. Louis Poetry Center, for the poem "Shore Birds," by Steve Paul which appears in New Letters vol. 75 no. 1.

4/09
Three 2010 Pushcart Prizes awarded to works published in NEW LETTERS

4/09
Congratulations to Professor CHRISTIE HODGEN, winner of a Pushcart Prize for her short story "Tom and Jerry," published in the Spring 2008 issue of Ploughshares

4/09
Spring 2009 English Department Newsletter (issue 2)

4/09
Summer/Fall 2009 Course Descriptions

4/09
2008-2009 Graduate Student Honors, Awards, Fellowships, & Scholarships

4/09
Creative Writing Scholarship Winners Announced

4/09
Undergraduate English Awards Announced

3/09
Congratulations to LORRIE CARANO, winner of the 2008 UMKC Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Humanities

1/09

 
UMKC launches new
MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING & MEDIA ARTS

2/09

Locality in Minimalist Syntax by Professor TOM STROIK now in print

2/09

 
Professor MICHELLE BOISSEAU'S poetry collection, A Sunday in God-Years now in print
 
Click here for The Kansas City Star's review of A Sunday in God-Years

2/09

 
Intertexts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture Presented to Paul E. Szarmach, co-edited by Professor VIRGINIA BLANTON now in print  

 

 

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