Facilities in English
| The Department of English is housed in the state-of-the-art English/Philosophy building, construction of which was completed in 2002. Just those parts of the building dedicated for English include office space for nearly 50 faculty and 100 graduate students, nearly 30 technology-ready classrooms, a film screening room with seating for 200, three seminar rooms for graduate-level courses, the Multiple Literacy Lab (MULL) to support work with digital and web technologies, and a graduate student library for quiet work and reflection. The presence of these resources means that students in our graduate programs have a truly rare opportunity to research and teach using the kinds of new and innovative technologies that they might need to master for careers in editing, publishing, consulting, or academe. Every graduate student appointed to a teaching assistantship receives shared office space, access to technology resources to support their teaching and research. Students in our program are also automatically eligible for money to support their travel to a professional conference where they may be presenting scholarly work. Besides these evident means of support, it is also the case that students have an extraordinary array of ways to involve themselves in the life of the department, whether through participation in the Graduate English Society (GES), attendance at one of the Department's monthly film nights or periodic readings by visiting writers, involvement in the annual Marathon Reading (last year, the book for the reading was James Joyce's Ulysses), or casual assocation with less formal activities like the Nineteenth-century Studies reading group.
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