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Peace Through Education

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

 
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CORONAVIRUS / COVID-19 UPDATES

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.

Looking for the latest campus updates on Coronavirus/COVID-19? The #UARK website has the most up-to-date information at https://health.uark.edu/coronavirus/.

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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News

English Graduate Student Receives James J. Hudson Doctoral Award in the Humanities (May 25, 2021)

Liza Vammen Named New Assistant Director of Business Communication Lab (May 24, 2021)

Fulbright College Announces 2021 Connor Faculty Fellows (May 19, 2021)

English Doctoral Student's Middle-Grade Novel About Trail of Tears Makes NPR's 'Best Books' List (May 18, 2021)

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine Releases Issue 3, Seeks Submissions for Issue 4 (May 7, 2021)

Charlotte Edsall Named Undergraduate Winner of Felix Christopher McKean Memorial Award (April 18, 2021)

U of A Alum and Award-Winning Poet Sy Hoahwah Hosts Reading and Workshop April 18 (April 16, 2021)

English Professor's Co-Edited Collection Named 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of Year Finalist (April 16, 2021)

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Arkansas English Newsletter
Fall 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.