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Welcome to the Department of English, where imagination meets critical thought.

Here, encounters with literature, visual culture, media, and performance foster inquiry into the complex relations among language, form, politics, and history. Our small classes and faculty-student collaborations cultivate innovation and precision in writing and reading, unsettle the familiar, and bring to life a culture’s legacies, struggles, secrets, and aspirations. Why choose English? Three good reasons: the work you do here will alter how you see yourself, open new worlds, and profoundly imprint any path you pursue.

 

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Rachel Conrad Bracken

Grad Student Rachel Bracken Receives Teaching Award

Rachel Conrad Bracken, a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English, is one of two graduate students awarded the 2018 Graduate Teaching Award for Independent Instruction by the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University.

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Ostherr encourages scholars to seek real-world applications for their...

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The Comic Event

New Book by Judith Roof

The Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and other self-conscious structures into an “event” that triggers, by virtue of a “cut,” an expected/unexpected... Read more

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Steinbeck expert to speak at Rice on novelist’s enduring influence in US politics
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Steinbeck expert to speak on novelist’s enduring influence in US politics
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Actors from the London Stage help Rice students find – and own – their voices
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Featured Publications

The Reckonings: Essays
The Comic Event
Applied Media Studies
Profit and Pleasure
Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People by Professor Timothy Morton
Hotel Life
book cover of The New Politics of Materialism: The New Politics of Materialism: History, Philosophy, Science, 1st Edition
What Gender Is, What Gender Does
Book Cover: Dark Ecology (Morton)
Book Cover: Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism
Book Cover: Love Among the Archives
Pax Americana
Toward a New Historicism
Book Cover: The Other Side (Johnson)
Book Cover: Realist Magic (Morton)
journal cover: Western American Literature Volume 48, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2013
Where Is American Literature
Book Cover: Medical Visions (Ostherr)
Book Cover: Damage Control (Dermont)
Book Cover: Hyperobjects (Morton)
Fires on the Border book cover
When We Arrive
Book Cover: The Starboard Sea
Book Cover: Before the Law (Wolfe)
Book Cover: The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity (Campana)
The Ecological Thought
Natural Selections
Trespasses: A Memoir
The Poetry of Rilke
Book Cover: Sanctuary (Waligora-Davis)
Book Cover: Surfer Girls in the New World Order (Comer)
Fracture and Fragmentation in British Romanticism
Wordsworth's Poetic Theory: Knowledge, Language, Experience
Book Cover: What is Posthumanism? (Wolfe)
Book Cover: Ecology without Nature (Morton)
The Currency
Voices of the Nation
Tudor Autobiography
The Fringes of Belief
The Poetics of DNA (Posthumanities)
Book Cover: NAFTA From Below: Maquiladora Workers, Farmers, and Indigenous Communities Speak Out on the Impact of Free Trade in Mexico (Hennessy)
Book Cover: Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal (Michie))
Cradle of Liberty
The Poetics of Spice: Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic
Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World
Book of faces
Book Cover: Cinematic Prophylaxis
Cultures of Taste - Theories of Appetite: Eating Romanticism
Reading the East India Company 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender (Women in Culture and Society)
Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory
All about Thelma and Eve: SIDEKICKS AND THIRD WHEELS
New Poems: Rainer Maria Rilke, Bilingual Edition
Duino Elegies: A Bilingual Edition
Profit and Pleasure
Book Cover: Landscapes of the New West: Gender and Geography in Contemporary Women's Writing (Comer)
Deviant Modernism
Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the "Outside" (Theory Out of Bounds)
Monumental Anxieties
Inside Bruegel: The Play of Images in Children's Games
Unsettled Subjects: Restoring Feminist Politics to Poststructuralist Critique (New Americanists)
Confinements: Fertility and Infertility in Contemporary Culture
Rilke Uncollected Poems: Bilingual Edition
Reproductions of Reproduction
Come As You Are
The Book of Images: Poems / Revised Bilingual Edition
A Study of Vermeer
The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson
Shakespeare the Actor and the Purpose of Playing
Material Feminism and the Politics of Discourse
A Lure of Knowledge: Lesbian Sexuality and Theory
Sororophobia: Differences among Women in Literature and Culture
The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women's Bodies
Reading Faulkner
The Literary Use of the Psychoanalytic Process
Friday’s Footprint: Structuralism and the Articulated Text
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