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The department offers the Bachelor of Arts in English and provides its majors with a broad range of introductory and advanced courses, and with independent study and research opportunities, including a senior seminar. The course of study introduces students to important literary texts and the cultural and historical forces that have shaped these works. It allows students to explore the complex intellectual, philosophical, aesthetic, and moral issues reflected in literature, enabling them to develop their verbal and analytical skills and strengthening their understanding of the relationship of literature to other disciplines. The English major provides a well-rounded undergraduate education and serves as an excellent foundation for a number of careers, including teaching, writing, publishing, journalism, business, and law.
Course Number - Course Title - Credit Hours
ENGL 202 - Advanced Composition for English Majors - 3
ENGL 205 or 206 - World Literature - 3
ENGL 207 - Survey of American Literature I - 3
ENGL 208 - Survey of American Literature II - 3
ENGL 301 - Survey of English Literature I - 3
ENGL 302 - Survey of English Literature II - 3
ENGL 304 - Shakespeare - 3
ENGL 305 - Modern English Grammar & Linguistics - 3
ENGL 330 or 331 - Black American Literature - 3
ENGL 400 - Senior Seminar - 3
ENGL 410 - Literary Theory - 3
One elective in a literary genre or period - 3
Two additional electives in English - 6
TOTAL 42
Grand Total for English Major: 125 hours
English Major Curriculum Sheet (pdf)
One writing course (beyond English 101 and 102) 3 hours
English and American literature courses 9 hours
English electives 6 hours
Total 18 hours
For more information about the English minor, call (334) 727-8100.
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Dr. Adaku T. Ankumah Professor of English Department Chair Office: Kenney Hall 70-303 Office Phone: 334-727-8100 Email: aankumah@tuskegee.edu |
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Dr. Zanice Bond Associate Professor of English Office: Kenney Hall 70-310 Office Phone: 334-727-8104 Email: zbond@tuskegee.edu |
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Dr. Rhonda Collier Professor of English Director, Tuskegee University Global Office Office: Kenney Hall 70-120 Office Phone: 334-727-8451 Email: rcollier@tuskegee.edu |
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Dr. Benjamin Fishkin Associate Professor of English Office: Kenney Hall 70-308 Office Phone: 334-727-8931 Email: bfishkin@tuskegee.edu |
Ph.D. University of Alabama
M.A. Miami University
B.A. University of Michigan
Research areas: literature and anglophone studies
Representative Publications and Presentations:
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Dr. A. Caroline Gebhard Professor of English Office: Kenney Hall 70-309 Office Phone: 334-727-8283 Email: agebhard@tuskegee.edu |
Ph.D. University of Virginia
M.A. University of Virginia
B.A., with distinction and honors in English, Northwestern University
Research areas: American Literature, African American and Women’s Studies
Representative Publications & Presentations:
African American Literature in Transition: Volume 7: 1880-1900, co-edited with Barbara McCaskill (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).
“Bess Bolden Walcott: A Legacy of Women’s Leadership at Tuskegee Institute,” Alabama Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Susan Youngblood Ashmore & Lisa Lundquist Dorr (University of Georgia Press, 2017), 222-238.
“Masculinity, Criminality, and Race: Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s Creole Boy Stories,” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 33.2 (2016):336-360. Served as co-editor of this special issue of Legacy, “Recovering Alice Dunbar-Nelson for the 21st Century,” and co-wrote Introduction 213-53, “Reflections on the Archive,” 384-391, and introductions to republished two poems (“Writing Black Modernism,” 392-5) and two rediscovered short stories (“Recovered from the Archive,” 404-7) by Dunbar-Nelson]
“Constance Feminore Woolson’s Two Women: 1862.: A Civil War Romance of Irreconcilable Difference,” Witness to Reconstruction: Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894, ed. Kathleen Diffley (University of Mississippi Press, 2011), 90-106.
“Post-Bellum–Pre-Harlem”: African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919, anthology of original essays co-edited with Barbara McCaskill (New York University Press, 2006). Includes co-written introduction 1-14, and my essay, “Inventing a 'Negro Literature': Race, Dialect, and Gender in the Early Work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson,” 162-178.
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Dr. Mark Henderson Assistant Professor of English Office: Kenney Hall 70-329 Office Phone: 334-727-2337 Email: mhenderson@tuskegee.edu |
Ph.D. English (19th- and 20th-century American literature, psychoanalytic theory), Auburn University
M.A. (English, Creative Writing), University of Louisiana at Monroe
B.A. (English), University of Louisiana at Monroe
Research areas: American modernism, the American Gothic, American film
Representative Publications & Presentations
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Dr. Kristen Miller Hill Assistant Professor of English Director, Tuskegee University Writing Center Office: Kenney Hall 70-305 Office Phone: 334-727-8776 Email: khill@tuskegee.edu |
Ph.D. English (Rhetoric and Composition), Auburn University
M.A. English (Literature), Auburn University
B.A. English, LaGrange College
Research areas: rhetorical theory, composition pedagogy, film, popular culture, the horror genre, video games and literacy
Representative Publications & Presentations:
Personal Website: http://www.kristenhill.net
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Dr. William Ndi Associate Professor of English Office: Kenney Hall 70-306 Office Phone: 334-727-8694 Email: wndi@tuskegee.edu |
Dual Doctorate in Languages: Translation & Languages, Literatures and Contemporary Civilizations, Paris, Université de Cergy-Pontoise
Research Areas: History of Ideas and Mentalities, Film Studies, Professional, Technical and Creative Writing, World Literatures, Languages, Applied Linguistics, Literary History, Media and Communication Studies, Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, History of Internationalism, Translation & Translatology, History and Contemporary Cultural Studies.
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Personal Website: https://www.amazon.com/Bill-F.-Ndi/e/B00CCKC1MQ/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1534977872&sr=1-2-ent