John Carroll University Department of English

The John Carroll University Department of English forms a strong, vibrant academic community. Instructors take pleasure in imparting their knowledge and intellectual passion to students, in encouraging students to fashion their own understanding of literature and the world around them, and in responding to students' academic and pre-professional needs. Our composition and rhetoric program, in whic

h almost all students participate, aims to equip them with skills that will serve them well throughout their lives, in their academic careers and beyond. The English major itself is composed of two tracks. The literature track provides both grounding in traditional literary historical fields and exposure to the latest innovations in literary and interdisciplinary inquiry. The creative writing track offers not only instruction in diverse writing genres but also opportunities for students to present their own work in print and in public readings before the university community. Students may submit their poems, short stories, photographs, or art work to the university literary magazine, The John Carroll Review, which is student-edited.