Students in Dickinson's Department of English study a range of English-language texts, including novels, poems, plays, graphic narratives, films, television and other work.
Our curriculum is flexible and focused, allowing majors to follow their own interests through diverse course offerings that address core questions (of author and audience; culture, nation and identity; form, medium and materiality; and history, period and influence).
Classes deepen the skills that help students to engage in critical conversations with authority and purpose. This culminates in an independently chosen senior thesis project—and then, a life beyond Dickinson in which English majors continue to show how reading, writing and thinking are vital to understanding and shaping our world.
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University
Syracuse University Newhouse School of Public Communications
Johns Hopkins University
Columbia University
Where Students Have Interned
NPR
Christie’s
Rodale Inc.
WriteGirl Los Angeles
Smithsonian Institution
NBC/Universal
Penguin Group
WHDH Boston
Student Perspective
“With the time, space and resources to conduct long-term research, I had the freedom to be creative about my writing process. I was able to put texts together that have never been analyzed next to each other, and I experimented with different approaches to my writing process. All of this freedom gave rise to work that I’m still proud of, years later.”
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón Brings Down the House
The first in-person Stellfox residency in three years was also among the most sparkling. Learn about U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón's triumphant visit to campus—and the powerful story that inspired it.