English

About Us

The English Department offers a BA in English with a full range of courses in English, American, and Anglophone literatures, creative writing, and publishing. For advisement on majoring or minoring in English, contact the English Department office.

Mission Statement

We, the faculty of the Department of English, take as our purpose the critical and creative engagement with literatures in English. Our concerns include the uses of language; the pleasures of reading and writing; the aesthetic, rhetorical, and ideological functions of textuality; literary and critical theories; and literatures in translation.

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Learning Goals and Objectives

Read the learning goals and objectives of the Department of English.


Organizations & Affiliations

Sigma Tau Delta

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Sigma Tau Delta

Sigma Tau Delta is the international English honor society open to junior and senior English majors who have completed 12 or more semester hours of English courses at Hofstra and who have a cumulative GPA of 3.5 in English courses and an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher.

Contact: English Department
Room 204 Mason Hall
516-463-5454

Twentieth-Century Literature

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20th century literature

Hofstra University is home to the respected academic journal Twentieth-Century Literature (TCL), which publishes essays, reviews, and awards the annual Andrew J. Kappel Prize in Literary Criticism. Professor Lee Zimmerman serves as the publication's academic editor.

More information: dukepress.edu/twentieth-century-literature

MEL: Melville Electronic Library

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Melville

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Professor Emeritus John Bryant
Department of English
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Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)

 

Association of Departments of English (ADE)

Department Administration

Chair
Dr. Karyn Valerius
Room 201 Mason Hall
516-463-5455
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Associate Chair
Dr. Adam Sills
Room 306 Mason Hall
516-463-0272
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Assistant Chair for Advisement
Joseph Fichtelberg
Room 209 Mason Hall
516-463-5465
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Director of Disability Studies
Dr. Craig Rustici
Room 310 Mason Hall
516-463-5829
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Director of Publishing Studies
Kelly McMasters
Room 109 Mason Hall
516-463-0278
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Editor of Twentieth-Century Literature
Dr. Lee Zimmerman
Room 221 Mason Hall
516-463-5460
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Editor of AMP
Janet Kaplan
Room 220 Mason Hall
516-463-7332
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Windmill
Room 225 Mason Hall

Secretary to the Chair
Suzanne Viggiano
516-463-5453

Secretary to the English Department
Pauline McInnis
516-463-5454

Writing Center
Room 102 Mason Hall
516-463-4908

Writing Proficiency Exam
Contact: Eileen Greco
Room 118 Mason Hall
516-463-5252

Faculty

Meet the faculty of the Department of English.

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