DEPARTMENT OF We are located in Guilford House, a pleasant yellow brick building initially constructed in 1892 as a women’s dormitory. Ensconced in the square mile of cultural treasures and pursuits known as University Circle, the department offers classes and hosts events that reexamine tradition and reaffirm exploration and scrutiny.
Our students examine the interactions between writing and its contexts through coursework, collaborative enterprise, pedagogical training, creative works, and independent research.
Since 2005, members of the department have published eighteen books—fiction, analysis, criticism, and poetry— on diverse subjects: the language of depression, intellectual property rights, the history of print culture, the origins of the horror film genre.
Schedule of Events
Breaking Genre: Writers Conference. Keynote speaker Paula McLain (author of the
acclaimed novel The Paris Wife) will present “Closer Than You Think: Thoughts on Genre Bending, Blending and
Plain-Old Jumping Ship.” Presenters: Joyce Dyer, Sarah Gridley, Charles Oberndorf, Lynn
Powell, Brad Ricca, James Sheeler, Sarah Willis, David Young. One
day. On the campus of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. For
more information: writersconference@case.edu.
Summer 2013
--Breaking Genre Writers Conference Info/Registration
--Summer 2013 Course Descriptions
--Fall 2013 Course Descriptions
--English Majors Discuss CWRU
--Information Session: Courses in Humanities
--Course Offerings for First Year Students
Faculty Publications
Partenia, a Pastoral Play, by Barbara
Torelli Benedetti. A Bilingual Edition.
Edited and Translated by Lisa Sampson & Barbara Burgess-Van Aken. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies and ITER.
Loom by Sarah Gridley. Omnidawn Publishing.
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White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin by Michael W. Clune. Hazelden.