English Literatures Program

The English major introduces students to a broad range of literary texts--novels, poetry, essays, drama, short stories, film, life-writing, diaries and letters--drawn from medieval to contemporary popular culture. The major offers a rich international curriculum. Students read literatures written or performed in English from Australia, Africa, the Caribbean, New Zealand and the Pacific, Canada, India, the U.S., and the UK. They are encouraged to explore the aesthetic, formal, and ideological dimensions of literature. . The English major enhances reading, writing and speaking skills, enabling students to analyse what they read, and articulate their response to reading with critical acumen and cultural sensitivity.

Within the major, students can study broadly across genres and literary periods, or they can follow streams of subjects in areas including Australian literature, postcolonial literatures, Indigenous Australian/Canadian/New Zealand literatures, gender in literature, and literature by historical periods. Further specialisation is possible within each stream, e.g. Canadian within Postcolonial, Medieval and Renaissance within historical periods, or modern and contemporary within historical periods. English may be combined with any other approved Arts major. It is often taken as the Arts major in the Arts/Law double-degree, and it is an ideal second major for Journalism students in the Bachelor of Communication and Media Studies.

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General Information

Teaching Staff
 

Convenor
Associate Professor Louise D’Arcens
Room: 19.1092
Telephone: 02 4221 3689
Email: louised@uow.edu.au

Associate Professor Graham Barwell
Room: 19.2007
Telephone: 02 4221 3617
Email: gbarwell@uow.edu.au

Dr John Bolin
Room: 19.1097
Telephone: 02 4221 3099 
Email: jbolin@uow.edu.au

Associate Professor Anne Collett
Room: 19.1089
Telephone: 02 4221 3736
Email: acollett@uow.edu.au

Professor Leigh Dale
Room 19.2109
Telephone 4221 3621
Email: ldale@uow.edu.au

Dr Guy Davidson
Room: 19.1102
Telephone: 02 4221 4733
Email: guy@uow.edu.au

Dr Debra Dudek
Room: 19.1099
Telephone: 02 4221 5692
Email: debrad@uow.edu.au

Dr Robyn Morris
Room 19:1023
Telephone 4221 8031
Email: robyn_morris@uow.edu.au

Professor Wenche Ommundsen
Room: 19.1094
Telephone: 02 4221 5445
Email: wenche@uow.edu.au

Associate Professor Paul Sharrad
Room: 19.1100
Telephone: 02 4221 4757
Email: psharrad@uow.edu.au

Dr Tony Simoes da Silva
Room: 19.1103
Telephone: 02 4221 5898
Email: tonys@uow.edu.au

 

Last reviewed: 12 December, 2011