Bachelor [English] From Marquette University

The literature major studies the major periods, authors and kinds of English literature from the beginnings of the language to the present. The writing-intensive major focuses on creative, journalistic and critical writing. There are two English majors at Marquette — English literature and writing-intensive english.

Rub shoulders

The Marquette Writing Society has hosted major writers — Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo, Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, two-time Oprah Book Club veteran Jane Hamilton, Elizabeth Berg, Michael Perry, Benjamin Percy, Lan Samantha Chang, David Haynes and Charles Baxter, to name a very few.

Learn from the best

As an English major, you will enter the classrooms of faculty known not only for their teaching talent, but also for their scholarly research and publication in areas such as cultural studies, environmental studies, women’s and multicultural literature, as well as in traditional areas such as medieval and Renaissance literature, Romanticism, and modernism. Two faculty are also award-winning novelists.

The cure for writer's block

Need to get your paper just right — or merely started? Schedule an appointment with the Ott Memorial Writing Center, staffed by English professors and graduate students who assist students with every step of the writing process. Trained undergraduate tutors can also help.Discover the practicality of English.As an English major, you can think, speak and write your way to success, learning to reason critically, argue cogently, and read and write clearly. (Former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner, who never even took a business course, was an English major.)

Live better through English

In active service learning through classes or internships around town, you’ll put your English major to use by helping kids in Milwaukee Public Schools get more out of reading. Or maybe you’ll just live confidently with the knowledge that your computer doesn’t know what it’s talking about when it comes to grammatical errors.