Discover your passion
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Find new horizons
With a degree in English or Creative Writing, you can have a successful career doing 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.
- Rebecca Oh has been named an honorable mention for the 2025-2026 HRI Research Prize for her article "Apocalyptic Realism: Death and Life Amid Nuclear Infrastructures" in the journal Environmental Humanities. In this...
Read full story Rebecca Oh earns HRI Research Prize honorable mention
- At a calm trot, a horse’s hooves leave divots in the pale, rocky dirt. Under a brilliantly blue Arizona sky, one may wonder where the “tornado” from this artwork's title comes in. Then, the horse picks up speed, kicking up dust and pebbles in a chaotic storm. Some photos are entirely a blur. When...
- English professor Christopher Kempf has been awarded a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship.Kempf was one of two Illinois professors to earn the fellowship, and among 223 individuals working...
Read full story Christopher Kempf earns Guggenheim Fellowship
- A new project led by a team of researchers from four universities aims to create and evaluate language models that represent past historical periods. The project, "...
Read full story New multi-institutional project to use AI to represent past historical periods
- Three members of the Department of English have earned faculty and graduate student fellowships from the Humanities Research Institute for 2026–27. This year’s research theme is “Up Against Erasure.” ...
Read full story English faculty members, graduate student named HRI Fellows
