Department Website: http://www.sewanee.edu/English/
Professor Reishman
Professor D. Richardson
Professor Carlson
Professor Benson
Professor Clarkson
Professor Prunty
Professor Macfie, Chair
Professor J. Grammer
Professor Gatta
Professor Michael
Associate Professor Malone
Associate Professor Engel
Assistant Professor Irvin
Visiting Assistant Professor E. Grammer
Visiting Assistant Professor Craighill
Visiting Assistant Professor Wells
Visiting Assistant Professor and Tennessee Williams Playwright-in-Residence Bragen
Visiting Instructor Wilson
Major in English: English majors must plan their academic curriculum carefully with their advisor. All majors are expected to take English 357 and 358 (Shakespeare) and at least two other courses in English literature before 1750. Potential or actual English majors are strongly urged to take English 200: Representative Masterpieces. Almost all majors take the full complement of eleven courses in English.
A student majoring in English is required to pass a written comprehensive examination, which must be taken in the final semester. At the beginning of the final semester, an English major with an average of 3.5 or better in English courses may, at the discretion of the chair, elect a course of independent study — the English Tutorial. The student must be enrolled in English 452, assigned a tutor for direction, and write a major essay as a step toward departmental honors. Students enrolled in English 452 who demonstrate excellence in their tutorial papers and in the written comprehensive examination are invited to take a one-hour oral examination in order to qualify for departmental honors.
The beginning and advanced creative writing courses (English 409, 410, and 411; and English 419, 420, and 421) are excluded from coverage on the comprehensive examination, and they count as courses outside the major.
