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The Bucknell English Department provides students with opportunities for intensive study in language and literature. Courses in English introduce students to important works of literary art in the English and American literary traditions, to other national and regional literary traditions in English, and to diverse and multicultural voices and traditions. Students in English classes learn to express themselves critically and creatively, developing a sensitivity to language and precision in writing and speech as well as analytical skills that will serve them well in their other university courses and in their professional lives following their education at Bucknell.

The Stadler Center for Poetry houses the Creative Writing program.  Students can take classes in writing poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction.

The University offers merit awards to support emerging artists on campus, a program coordinated by the Office of Admissions.  For more information, please visit www.bucknell.edu/admissions/arts. 

Bucknell English Department
Harold Schweizer, Chair

121 Vaughan Lit
voice: (570) 577-1553
fax: (570) 577-3760

New Faculty Profiles We welcome three new teacher/scholars to the department.   Professor Alf Siewers Wins Teaching Award Alf Siewers received a Presidential Award for Teaching Excellence. Siewers, who joined the faculty in 2002, was honored for revitalizing medieval studies as well as forging interdisciplinary connections with post-modern studies, ecological studies, science fiction, psychoanalysis, and film studies. "Students find him passionate about medieval literature and his courses thought-provokingly insightful," the citation read. Harriet Pollack Honored with Welty Society's Phoenix Award Prof. Pollack, who teaches Southern literature, has been named the recipient of the 2008 Phoenix award "given to an individual whose contributions to Welty Studies have been exceptional." Her 1998 Kirby Award-winning essay on the relationship between Welty's photography and fiction and her volume Welty and Politics: Did The Writer Crusade (LSU, 2001 with Suzanne Marrs) are cited as "ground-breaking."  Prof. Pollack's latest book, Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination, will be available by January.

English Club     Student Publications Fire and Ice Mirth Grinder

• Upcoming Lectures
  "Shelter Under The Banyan: Medical Care For The Homeless Women With Mental Illness”
  Dr. Renu Weiss, Chennai, India
  Wednesday, April 23 -- 4 pm
  Multicultural Center Lounge in Vedder Hall

   

• The First Annual Mirth Grinder and Fire and Ice Contributor Reading
  Tuesday, April 29 – 6:30 pm
  Bucknell Hall

   

• Bucknell's Living History
  Presented by English 290
  Tuesday, April 29 -- 4 pm
  Bucknell Hall

   

• New Courses, Research, Expand Bucknell’s Environmental Humanities Offerings
  The English Department is taking a lead role in development of innovative environment humanities undergraduate studies || More:    Find out about the new courses!

   

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