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My first impression on visiting Stanford was that the professors, students and supporting staff were genuinely friendly, supportive, compassionate, and that this was a non-competitive community which also happened to do some of the most cutting edge work in the discipline. This department cares about its students and their lives, and yet still demands the best work of them without spoon-feeding. And the sun shines! I wouldn't go anywhere else.

— Jodie Archer, PhD 2014, Apple Inc.

Upcoming Events

May
22

A Reading with Grady Chambers and Edgar Kunz

Terrace Room, 4th floor, Margaret Jacks...
6:30pm
May
23

Speculative Fictions: Possible Futures for the Planet

Margaret Jacks Hall, Terrace Room
2:00pm
May
23

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.

The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building The Transcontinental
Out of Context: The Uses of Modernist Fiction
Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities
Milton in the Long Restoration

Explore the Bookshelf