Welcome to the Department of English and Creative Writing (Herring Hall)! At the undergraduate level, we offer a Major in English, a Major in English with a Concentration in Creative Writing, a Minor in English, and a Minor in Creative Writing. Our graduate programs include the PhD in English and the community-engaged MFA in Creative Writing. The department is also home to SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, a quarterly journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press, and to R2: The Rice Review, the undergraduate literary journal produced by our students. Faculty expertise spans British and American literatures and cultures from the medieval era to the present, along with medical and environmental humanities, critical race and gender studies, media and visual culture, and creative writing in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, translation, and publishing.
