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Peace Through Education

English Department Statement in Solidarity with Protests

Dear Members and Friends of the English Department, 

We are reaching out to you in pain and solidarity in these days of uprising against our nation’s fundamental structural injustices, longstanding and deep-rooted injustices most recently exposed by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and others. Our university, like so many, has long participated in maintaining those structures, as our administrators have acknowledged. We must all work together, and stand up for one another, if we are to help bring change.

Read the rest of the department's statement by clicking here.

Click here for a list of links to other statements and organizations in support of Black Lives Matter.

Click here for the department's response to #BlackatUark.

 

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For everyone’s safety, many faculty and staff members are continuing to work remotely. We are still available to assist you during our normal office hours, and recommend reaching out via email to get in touch.

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Please note: Guidance from the CDC, Arkansas Department of Health and university may change rapidly given the fluidity of the situation.

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Graduate Student Speaker Series Continues With Katie Powell (Sept. 16, 2020)

Leonard Cassuto Talks about Preparing English Graduate Students for Diverse Careers (Sept. 17, 2020)

New Collection of Essays by English Professor Toni Jensen Released Today (Sept. 8, 2020)

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Arkansas English Newsletter
Spring 2020 

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Graduate Programs

M.A./Ph.D. in English

M.A./Ph.D. in English

While rigorous in terms of the level of research and scholarship they require, the M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in English also emphasize professionalization to prepare students for employment inside or outside of academia.

 
Creative Writing & Translation

Creative Writing & Translation

One of the nation’s oldest MFA Programs, and one of the “Top Five Most Innovative” (The Atlantic Monthly), we offer degree tracks in Fiction, Poetry and Literary Translation.


Graduate Certificate in Technical Writing & Public Rhetorics

Graduate Certificate in Technical Writing & Public Rhetorics 

A fully online 12 credit hour graduate program developed to meet the needs of working professionals and graduate students in Northwest Arkansas and beyond.


 

DEPARTMENT STATEMENT ON
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

 

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one’s self from the tyranny of any of them. 

--José Martí

  

We in the English Department of the University of Arkansas believe a respect for policies and practices that foster diverse voices and viewpoints, that protect all members of our community against discrimination, and that maintain appropriate professional boundaries is integral to the success of our students and our program.   

We acknowledge that structures of historical oppression are still operational today, sometimes more visibly and sometimes less, and that efforts toward diversity and inclusion must permeate all levels of practice, from curriculum to teaching, from admissions to hiring, taking into account race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, neurodiversity, country of origin, citizenship status, socio-economic status, physical and mental health, and other factors that can divide and disadvantage.

Our department consists of three broad areas—literature, creative writing, and rhetoric and composition—within which our community of scholars fosters intellectual and aesthetic diversity. We try to continually reconsider what constitutes the center and the canon of our disciplines, and to renovate our departmental culture and teaching practices in response to evolving student, state, and national populations. With these conversations, we hope to provoke mutual reflection on how to respect one another's differences and build from the diversity of our communities.

We hope, above all, that if you come to us as a student, we can teach you to question, in large part by modeling our own engagement with the questions that drive us. 

  

Reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside… and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.

--Audre Lorde