English and Modern Languages
Here’s How Students Get to Know Us and We Get to Know Them:
- First-Year Composition Classes
- Foreign Language Classes and Activities
- Creative Writing, Literature, and Other Upper-Division Classes
- Affiliated Programs (Gender and Women’s Studies; National Writing Project)
- Upcoming English Classes
- Upcoming Spanish Classes
Grounded in the Humanities: Our Mission and Vision
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Alumni Spotlight: Stephan Viau (2013)
Program News
The most noteworthy reference titles published in 2025 have been named to the 2026 Outstanding References Sources List, an annual list selected by experts of the Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association. The first title on the list was American Women Writers of the 19th Century by our very own colleague, Dr. Heidi Hanrahan! Dr. Hanrahan’s book was published last year by McFarland & Company, and the panel singled out the work’s “seventy-eight readable, accessible entries on writers like Louisa May Alcott, Emma Lazarus, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Zitkala-Ša.” The citation continues, “There are also entries on important texts, literary periods, genres, and terms, as well as entries on the cultural, historical, and social events and movements of the nineteenth century that impacted American women writers.” Wow! We couldn’t be more impressed!