Fall registration is around the corner! We are here to celebrate your freedom to read, write, and think. Discover... Imagine... You... in English and Creative Writing!

Updated starter pack of English & Creative Writing departments and programs, now that we are officially an English & Creative Writing Department. Please share and let us know of others who should be added!

Last year, faculty members voted to change our name to the Department of English & Creative Writing: more inclusive, better reflects our teaching, creative work, & research. This vote has now been ratified by the University. We are now officially the Department of English & Creative Writing!!

Congratulations to our distinguished department chair @jaswinderbolina.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, one of the most distinguished and valuable ($100,000!) prizes for poetry in the Anglophone world. Jaswinder won for his 4th book of poems, English as a Second Language.

Come and find out how English majors can thrive in medical school! A workshop for undergraduate humanities majors considering applying to medical school, featuring UM English alumni who have pursued that track and our colleague Dr. Gauri Agarwal from the UM Miller School of Medicine. Wed. Jan. 22!

Considering a master's degree in English? Here is a list of US/Canadian programs with full or partial funding for master's students! This list was put together a few years ago by Jennifer Doyle (UC Riverside) & V21 Collective. Check the program websites directly for their current funding status.

Victoria Chen understands the assignment. A Georgetown business major/English minor, Ms. Chen wrote to the New York Times: "To employers in business fields & beyond, if you want employees who excel at thinking, if you want employees who can pay attention for long periods, hire a humanities major."

Read trans literature and discuss how trans and gender-diverse people are represented in the US and globally. Take Professor Munro's Transgender Identity class in the spring, cross-listed between English and Gender and Sexuality Studies!

Undergraduate students: Do you want to stand out in your medical school applications? Are you interested in the relationship between the mind and the body? Do you wonder why medieval knights could die of lovesickness but now we can't? Take Dr. Nikolsky's Medieval Mental Health class next semester!

A starter pack for English and Creative Writing departments and programs—let us know if you want to be added (or removed)! We hope to add new accounts now that higher ed Bluesky is growing quickly!

On Friday we were thrilled to host the amazing scholar and musician Julian Saporiti. He talked about his No-No Boy project recovering Asian American musical traditions and he performed some of the songs that he wrote to tell that history in a brilliantly engaging format.