One of the founding departments of Stanford University in 1891, the English Department is the cornerstone of the humanities at Stanford. The pioneer faculty of English was an eclectic group of writers, comparativists, and literary scholars.
Views from the Department
Professor Ato Quayson with Professor Adam Johnson at Creative Writing Welcome Dinner
Recent News
Ato Quayson, the Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Chair of the Department of English elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Read the full article on Stanford Report.
From Library of America | February 10, 2023
Book Madness author Denise Gigante on the obsessive 19th-century bibliomaniacs who “lived in and through books”
Long before there was BookTok, there was bibliomania, a consuming hunger among nineteenth-century American readers to amass, pore over, and cherish textual objects and commune with beloved...
Winter-Spring 2023 Undergraduate Research Internships at SCALAA (Stanford Computational Approaches Literary and Archival Analysis)
Are you interested in gaining academic research experience this year? Then why not apply for an undergraduate Research Internship in the Department of English, collaborating with faculty to pursue original...
Upcoming Events
September
28
Date
Thu September 28th 2023, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Location
Zoom
Speaker: Professor
“What is…Secularity?”
A Folger Institute event featuring Stanford Professor of English Esther Yu
Thursday,…
Department Bookshelf
English remains a top-ranked department nationally because of the strength and variety of our faculty publications, both in scholarly research and creative writing. Browse the Bookshelf to explore our many interests.
