English Department

English

In the English Department at St. Kate’s your voice matters, and we help you amplify it in discussion-based classes in literature, language and writing. Together, in our programs, students and faculty explore diverse traditions in global contexts of social justice.

Our graduates go out into the world prepared to succeed at anything!
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Kelly Barnhill (1996) won the Newberry Award in 2017 for her novel The Girl Who Drank the Moon.

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Anne McKeig (1989) was appointed to the Minnesota State Supreme Court, the highest court’s first American Indian justice.

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Yanshuo Zhang (2011), a creative writer, artist and scholar, earned her PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford, where she now teaches.

 

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English Faculty are Student-centered Scholars and Writers

Our writing and recent publications include poetry collections Blue Orange and What Sweetness from Salt, essays and editing in Blues Vision and A Good Time for the Truth, and scholarly books The Literary Imagination in Israel-Palestine and The Ulysses Delusion."

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Mary Alice Muellerleile ’60
Innovative Mary Alice Muellerleile Endowed Chair in English established with lead campaign gift from Brenda Grandstrand Woodson, ’80, JD
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Six Katies Named Fulbright 2020 Semi-Finalists
2019 winter commencement speakers
Commencement speakers inspire at winter graduation ceremony
The Loft Literary Center has selected St. Kate's English assistant professor Dr. Taiyon Coleman as a recipient of the 2018–2019 Mirrors and Windows Fellowship. Photo by Bao Phi
English professor wins prestigious fellowship
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