Welcome to Florida State's Department of English.
Internationally recognized for their cutting-edge research and publications, our faculty offer a wide range of courses in literary fields, genres, and media. We equip our ambitious, multi-talented undergraduate and graduate students to venture out into the new creative economies: from academia to publishing, from artistic entrepreneurialism to social media marketing.
We are located in the Williams Building, which houses classrooms and the Augusta Conradi Theatre. We invite you to explore our program offerings and to meet our dedicated faculty, students, and staff.
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Department News
Creative Writing major Ashley Boudreaux
Boudreaux is a Presidential Scholar, an honors colloquium leader, an editorial assistant for Southeast Review, and director of the Student Government Association’s Office of the Mental Health Council. Read more...
Doctoral candidate and Fulbright student Samuel Granoff
Granoff credits his Fulbright experience in France and his research at Université Paris-Saclay with giving him a new perspective and his in-progress World War I novel a new direction. Read more...
New issue of Spectrum spotlights English faculty, alumni
The Summer 2025 edition includes a profile of English alumnus Joey Ariellano and an article that features Professor Meegan Kennedy and the newly formed College of Arts and Sciences Artificial Intelligence Task Force. Read more...
Daniel Sutter earns Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford
He earned his doctoral degree in creative writing in Spring 2025. Sutter will use the two-year fellowship, which begins in Fall 2025, to fine-tune his dissertation novel Orders of Magnitude. Read more...
department welcomes new faculty member abigail sprenkle
Sprenkel joins the English department as an assistant professor for the Literature, Media, and Culture Program. She specializes in Old English literature, law, and legal culture. Read more...
department welcomes new faculty member charles mcmartin
McMartin joins the English department as an assistant professor for the Rhetoric and Composition Program. He specializes in community writing and rhetorics of student leaders. Read more...
Programs
Creative Writing
Consistently ranked among the top writing programs in the country, the Creative Writing program offers a thriving community to writers who are looking to strengthen their craft while building life-long relationships in writing.
Literature, Media, and Culture
The Literature, Media, and Culture program exposes students to provocative questions that spark scholarly engagement and creativity, helping them discuss the social and political impact of literature.
Rhetoric and Composition
The graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition focuses on rhetorical and social practices and theories of composition, particularly emphasizing the relationships between texts, technologies, language, and literacies.
Editing, Writing, and Media
The undergraduate Editing, Writing, and Media track emphasizes the production, analysis, and interpretation of historic, contemporary, academic, and everyday texts.
