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Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love by English faculty Debra Gwartney is a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in autobiography.

Welcome to the Department of English

Our department offers a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses to meet the needs of students with a diversity of interests, and academic and professional backgrounds. By studying literature, rhetoric, composition, and critical theory, students in the Department of English acquire experience in intertextual and cross-disciplinary inquiry represented by many cultures and historical periods. They learn critical approaches to texts and issues that enable them to interpret and compare positions, to read closely, critically, and with empathy, to conduct research, to weigh evidence, and to write with insight and expertise. To learn more about us, please use the menu at the top of the page to navigate our site, or visit the Quick Links.
books2010 Oregon Rhetoric and Composition Conference

The Oregon Rhetoric and Composition Conference brings together educators from high schools, community colleges, and four-year public and private colleges and universities to consider a range of practical and theoretical issues related to rhetoric and composition, language, and literacy. The conference theme is "The Future of Composition: Methods, Contexts, and Technologies." arrow Click here to learn more


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The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World by Paul Collins