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English
Department Head
Jimmie Killingsworth
Location
Blocker Building 227
Phone
979-845-3451
Mail Stop
4227
Web Address
http://www-english.tamu.edu
Jimmie Killingsworth
Location
Blocker Building 227
Phone
979-845-3451
Mail Stop
4227
Web Address
http://www-english.tamu.edu
The Department of English at Texas A&M
University has played an important role on campus since the
University's founding in 1876, when "Languages and Literature" was
designated as one of the original four courses of study. The English
Department proper was founded in 1877, with Professor and General L.M.
Lewis as its head. English was the first department in the College of
Liberal Arts to offer graduate degrees, establishing its MA program in
1962 and the PhD in 1967. Now in its second century, the Department of
English maintains a tradition of excellence in research and teaching at
all levels.
Undergraduate
Degree(s):
- BA
- Minor
Concentration/Tracks:
- Literature Track
- Rhetoric Track
- Creative Writing Track
Minor:
- Optional
Undergraduate Advisor(s):
- Claude Gibson
- Barbara Newsom
- Jaclyn Upshaw
- Elise Elliott
- Kate Stephenson
Career Options:
- Technical writing
- Editing and publishing
- Government service
- Public relations
- Personnel work
- Advertising or administrative positions in business and industry
- Preparation for later professional training in law, medicine, business and the ministry, as well as for graduate work in the humanities
- Teaching or educational administration
Graduate
Degree(s):
- MA
- PhD
- Certificate
Concentration/Tracks:
- African-American Literature
- American Studies
- Comparative Literature and Culture
- Creative Writing
- Discourse Studies
- Film Studies
- Gender Studies
- New Modern British Studies
- Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Graduate Advisor(s):
- Sally Robinson
