Contemporary English studies — like the English language itself — has a global reach. Through wide and rich areas of inquiry, we impart key skills — such as thinking critically, analyzing complex texts and contexts, communicating persuasively, and appreciating the aesthetic and cultural value of literary and multimedia texts that prepare our students for success in the workplace and in life.

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Read Analytically. Write Effectively. Think Creatively.

Our curriculum is shaped by the flow of English-speaking people and cultural production in English across both time and space, combining historical, linguistic and cultural analysis with creative work in literature, film and emerging media. The varied interests of our faculty and students include creative writing, rhetoric and discourse studies, gender and women’s studies, film studies, digital humanities and the full range of literatures and varieties of English, including African American, the African Diaspora, Latina/o, Asian American and South Asian studies. Through these wide and rich areas of inquiry, we impart key skills — thinking critically, analyzing complex texts and contexts, communicating persuasively and appreciating the aesthetic and cultural value of literary and multimedia texts — that prepare our students for success in the workplace and in life.

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Meet our faculty: find contact information, bios, research interests, awards, publications and more.

In the Undergraduate Professional and Research Experience Program (UPREP), students work with a faculty member on a research project outside the classroom.

The English Aggie Undergraduate Newsletter is a monthly publication written and designed by an undergraduate student intern.

The English Research Essay Contest recognizes and rewards outstanding undergraduate research writing at Texas A&M.

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Washington DC, USA - June 2017: Youth in their sneakers standing by the marker engraving memorializing the location of where Martin Luther King made his famous "I have a Dream" speech.

Dr. Ira Dworkin, associate professor in the Department of English, explores how literature by Black writers, from Henry Dumas to Toni Morrison, influenced social and political change throughout the Civil Rights Movement and beyond.

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Dr. James Francis from the Texas A&M Department of English examines how science fiction, from early works like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to recent films such as Coralie Fargeat's The Substance, continues to reflect and shape humanity’s understanding of science, society and the future.

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A gift from English former student Susan V. Fontaine ’77 will establish a lab in the Department of English where students and faculty explore AI technology, the future of writing and the relationship between the two.

Featured Research

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The widespread availability of generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT has created a considerable amount of fear, excitement and debate across higher education. For the Texas A&M Department of English Department, this crisis only highlights the centrality of writing and reading to the digital technologies we all engage with in our day-to-day lives.

Texas A&M University English Professor Laura Mandell extends her index finger toward a wall-sized touch-screen display featuring the New Variorum Shakespeare website in the Humanities Visualization Space within the Center of Digital Humanities Research

Texas A&M has long had a reputation for innovative research in Shakespeare studies and in the digital humanities alike. A fresh digital arrival in the English Department, the New Variorum Shakespeare, is set to expand that reputation yet further.