Affiliated Societies

English Department faculty, staff and students pursue scholarly and professional interests through numerous activities-- from informal reading groups to membership in national organizations. A handful of these are listed below.
      If you are active in such a group and would like it listed here, see our link request form for more information.

Thinking Sex in Transnational Times is a collaborative research project focused on the study and production of "sex" across different spaces, regions, epochs, epistemologies, and disciplines. The goal of this project is to chart new ground in Lesbian and Gay Studies, Area Studies (including American Studies), and Ethnic and Gender Studies.

Bricolage is an annual printed journal, produced each spring by undergraduates through the Department of English. We publish a wide range of literary and visual arts created by students, staff, faculty, and alumni, including fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, prose, scripts, and essays, and any type of art that reproduces well in black and white and two dimensions. Every year the contributing authors give a reading the at the University Bookstore.

The eighteenth and nineteenth century works-in-progress group will provide a collegial forum in which graduate students and faculty members can share work including master's essays, book or dissertation chapters, and journal articles. Our aims are to promote scholarly cross-century collaboration among graduate students and faculty members and to increase the departmental presence of eighteenth and nineteenth century studies.

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