Through its teaching, research, service, and outreach missions, the Virginia Tech English Department promotes the study of language and literature in all its forms. Underlying our mission is the recognition that individuals and societies create and transform themselves in and through language—that language is the primary means by which all people express themselves, make sense of the world, frame questions, deepen understanding, cultivate aesthetic awareness, solve problems, and take action.
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The Department of English celebrates diversity in all aspects of community and work and recognizes that strength and excellence depend on diversity.
Images by Richard Mallory Allnutt (c) 2007
Events
Visiting Writers and Scholars: Schedule; Composition Speakers
Undergraduate Research Conference: March 26, 2010
View slide show of last year's conference.
News
Jim Dubinsky has won the Medea Gibbs Outstanding Teacher Award from the American Business Communication Association.
Carlos Evia has received NIOSH funding to use Computer Assisted Telephone Survey (CATS) technology to study stress and safety of Latino Construction Workers. He will work with an interdisciplinary team of investigators.
Ed Falco has published his 3rd novel, Saint John of the Five Boroughs (Unbridled Books).
Bob Hicok has published a poem, The History of Origami, in The New Yorker.
Diana George has published (with Paula Mathieu) “Not Going it Alone: Small Press Papers and the Circulation of Homeless Advocacy” in College Composition and Communication (Sept 2009): 156-175.
The MFA in Creative Writing has been ranked #50 among the 400 programs in the US in Poets & Writers.
Cheryl Ruggiero has won 3rd Place in the 2009 Sherwood Anderson Short Story Contest for “Potatoes.”