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Our department explores how readers and writers of all kinds interpret texts and express their understanding of human experience. All our courses emphasize intensive study of literature and writing as well as the links between literary studies and other arts and interdisciplinary programs. Our goal is to help students develop their powers of imagination and a creatively critical intelligence.
Majors
Creative Writing
Creative Writing–Secondary Education
English (Literature)
English–Secondary Education
Minors
Creative Writing
Publishing and Editing
English
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Susquehanna University’s Visiting Writers Series will feature Elizabeth Beier, an acclaimed executive editor at St. Martin’s Press, on April 15 at 7:30 p.m. This event, held in Seibert Hall’s Isaacs Auditorium, is free and open to the public.
Why Doesn’t Race Go Away? Reflections on Post-Racial America” in a talk at Susquehanna University on April 8 at 7:30 p.m.
Carole Boyce Davies, professor of Africana Studies, English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University, will discuss “Caribbean Diasporic Circulations: Poetics and Politics” April 4 at 7 p.m.
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