Discover your passion
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Find new horizons
Our majors go on to have successful careers. With a degree in English or Creative Writing, you can do nearly anything. Advisors and career planning specialists can help you discover ways to match the skills you gain with available internships, volunteer opportunities, and leadership roles, giving you the chance to gain real-world experience and build professional networks. To learn more about professional development opportunities and career outcomes for our majors, visit LAS Career Services.
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Build your creative community
If writing feels as necessary as breathing, this major is for you. Our students read and write well, and they are also skilled oral communicators. They thrive when surrounded by diverse styles, aesthetics, and world views.
- The voyage of the HMS Challenger in the 1870s was a sprawling 3-1/2-year expedition to explore the world’s oceans. The scientists aboard the vessel collected 100,000 specimens of sea creatures, discovered 5,000 new species, mapped the ocean floors and took hundreds of measurements of sea...
- David Wright Faladé examines race, class, and gender through the eyes of a young college woman spending time in her small Texas hometown in his new short story, “...
- Illinois English professor Shawn Gilmore was recently featured on Slate's Decoder Ring podcast. The podcast episode explores the origins of a familiar visual trope in thrillers, mysteries, and crime dramas: a board...
Read full story Unraveling the mystery behind string boards: Shawn Gilmore featured on Slate podcast
- Rob Kanter believed the best education didn’t happen within four walls. Even when he stood in front of a classroom, he focused on the world beyond it.For more than a decade, Kanter (PhD, '99, English) guided students not only through course readings but across landscapes—from the tropical...
Read full story Writing, wonder, and the world beyond the classroom
- David Wright Faladé, professor of creative writing in the Department of English, was recently published in The New Yorker. His short story,...
Read full story David Wright Faladé's short story published in The New Yorker magazine
