North Central College Department of English

Summer reading from Dr. Smith!

Cheers to Dr. Jackson on completing THREE DECADES at NCC! What an inspiring teacher, mentor, thinker, writer, and campus citizen! We are wishing her an especially delightful summer!

Congrats to Dr. Stafford on winning the Distinguished Scholarship and Creative Work Award! (We made her work it for the camera! 😊 📸 🌟)

Our Outstanding Major in Writing is Raine Lanoue! Congratulations, Raine! We’re glad we get to keep you around the department for one more year!

This year’s Outstanding Major in Literature is Sophia Hein! Congrats, Sophia, on this well-deserved award and your upcoming graduation!

Meet our Outstanding Major in English for 2025-26, Ainsley Ratledge! (It also happens to be her birthday today! 🎈) Congratulations, Ainsley!

Proud of our majors and minors who presented their work yesterday at the Rall Symposium!

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We’re continuing to support the American Council of Learned Societies's campaign by highlighting the role of humanities and social science research in how we understand experience and meaning.

A work of literature or a historical account can help someone recognize their own experience in someone else’s words–a connection that can shape how we interpret the past and how we understand what we are living through.

At JSTOR, we see how access to this work supports teaching, research, and sustained engagement with the sources people rely on.

Learn how to participate: https://bit.ly/3Q8w3AD

Image: Oluf Hartmann, Studie til Diogenes, 1879–1910. SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst.

Today English and welcomed spring with plants 🪴 and poetry!

Dr. Long’s seminar, Literature of the Vietnam War and Southeast Asian American Literature, capped off their semester with lunch at Lotus Bahn Mi! An epic combination of reading and eating!