Troy University English Department

09/30/2026

How is AI shaping our world?

Join the University Honors Global Scholars and Dr. Asim Ali for an engaging conversation about artificial intelligence and its impact on our lives, communities, and future.

📅 Monday, October 5, 2026
🕙 10:00 AM
📍 Trojan Center Ballrooms

08/07/2026

The English Department is back from summer break and ready to start a great semester! ⚔️📚🎓

11/04/2024

Hmmmm... I wonder what's being taught today....

04/17/2024

Congrats to all the English dept/CCFA awardees!

04/17/2024

Coming in T5! Email Dr. Leslie Whatley for details!

03/14/2024

Mark your calendars, please!

Award-winning nonfiction author Patricia Foster, a native of Fairhope, will receive the Hall-Waters Prize from Troy University on April 12. Foster, who is professor emerita at the University of Iowa’s celebrated MFA Program where she taught for more than 25 years, will read selections from her mos...

08/10/2023

Students! This is a great study abroad opportunity for you for summer 2024!

05/12/2023

The 2023 issue of The Rubicon is now available online. A great portfolio of stories, poems, and artwork---all of it in color this year! We're very proud of our English majors' creative work. Check it out!
https://spectrum.troy.edu/rubicon/Rubicon17.pdf

04/24/2023

Coming this Friday! The National Book Award-winning MacArthur "genius" grant recipient Terrance Hayes will be on-campus to receive the Hall-Waters Prize for his distinguished contributions to Southern Literature (an all literature). He'll be reading and signing books at 10 am in the amphitheater (or in the Trojan Center theater if it's raining--not the Claudia Crosby). Students in ENG 4495 have organized this event, so come on out and help support the Hall-Waters Prize!

10/03/2022

We're very excited to announce that one of our great alumni, Mary Griffin, has just published her first novel (under a nom de plume)!

Please either scan the Q code or go to to the link here to pick up a copy! https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/run-for-your-life-griffin-capps/1142357976?ean=9798823123259&fbclid=IwAR2SkGKihBu2-1xqO-oF6mHBCuYdCEBMJP-t9PA51QE-S7VJNZ40P5otJBA . We couldn't be prouder!