Literature, Language, and Writing

In the Literature, Language, and Writing 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!

Kelly Barnhill (1996) won the Newberry Award in 2017 for her novel The Girl Who Drank the Moon.

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

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

Available Programs

College for Women

English

Spanish

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Our 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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St. Catherine University congratulates Fulbright recipient Erin Tebben

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