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As advancements in artificial intelligence look to upend our daily lives, science fiction can hopefully provide insight ...
10/21/2026

As advancements in artificial intelligence look to upend our daily lives, science fiction can hopefully provide insight an uncertain future.

In spring 2027, take ENG 206-ON1: AI in Literature and Popular Culture with Prof. Nic Anstett. In this course, students will explore the evolution of robotics and artificial intelligence in fiction from classics like I, Robot by Isaac Asimov to newer works such as Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun.

Whose stories take center stage in American theatre?Take ENG 205-ON4 / ENG 385-ON1 Cross-Cultural American Drama with Pr...
10/19/2026

Whose stories take center stage in American theatre?

Take ENG 205-ON4 / ENG 385-ON1 Cross-Cultural American Drama with Prof. Billy Wolfgang in spring 2027 with SU English. Explore 250 years of American drama through playwrights from diverse ethnic, racial, and cultural backgrounds. From August Wilson and Cherríe Moraga to Madeline Sayet and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, examine how theatre brings questions of immigration, identity, and belonging to life.

How do humans fit into nature? Is nature wild and threatening, sacred and deserving of protection, or capable of transfo...
10/18/2026

How do humans fit into nature? Is nature wild and threatening, sacred and deserving of protection, or capable of transforming us?

In Spring 2027, take ENG 206-OM1 / ENG 381-OM1 Nature, Literature, and Pop Culture with Professor Clinton McCallum.

In this course we will learn to see our natural environment as filled with stories waiting to be told and explore methods for telling them. We will study nature writing from Henry David Thoreau to contemporary authors like Barbara Kingsolver and Robin Wall Kimmerer, exploring memoir, fiction, poetry, literary natural history, and creation narratives from the Bible and Indigenous cultures. Alongside reading, students will keep a field journal, discover the stories they want to tell, and tell them through personal essays, literary natural history, poetry, and mixed media.

What happens to literature when the assumptions that once gave it coherence begin to break down? In spring 2027, take EN...
10/15/2026

What happens to literature when the assumptions that once gave it coherence begin to break down?

In spring 2027, take ENG 205-ON1 / ENG 381-ON1: Postmodern and Contemporary Literature, with Prof. Laura Smith. This course examines postmodern and contemporary literature and the connections and important differences between them. We begin with later twentieth-century writers whose works question stable meaning, coherent identity, traditional narrative, and the distinction between reality and representation. We then turn to contemporary writers who inherit these formal experiments while responding to climate change, migration, and debates about race, gender, history, and memory. Readings may include Kurt Vonnegut, Don DeLillo, Jorge Luis Borges, Toni Morrison, Art Spiegelman, Claudia Rankine, and M. NorbeSe Philip.

Coming of age means asking big questions. What do I believe? Who has authority? What makes a life good? Take ENG 205-ON3...
10/15/2026

Coming of age means asking big questions. What do I believe? Who has authority? What makes a life good? Take ENG 205-ON3: Religion and YA Literature to explore how young adult literature portrays faith, shapes moral choices, and stages conflicts between religious authority and individual experience. Tuesday & Thursday, 11:00 AM–12:15 PM / Professor Kerry Pray

Games are incredible devices for telling stories, whether they’re on our tables or our screens. In Spring 2027, take ENG...
10/15/2026

Games are incredible devices for telling stories, whether they’re on our tables or our screens.

In Spring 2027, take ENG 225-ON2: Writing Games with Professor Meagan Nyland. In this class, students will navigate the joys and challenges of writing interactive stories, from “choose your own adventure” novels and DnD-like role-playing adventures to cinematic video games. The course kicks off with Global Game Jam, a weekend-long event where students work in teams to make games based on a shared theme. From there, we’ll study interactive storytelling, design our own games and adventures, and learn about publishing, including developing a professional video game proposal. The course will fine-tune the writing, collaborative, and interdisciplinary skills needed to make successful story-driven games.

Take your love of stories to Iceland in Spring 2027 with Stevenson English! Explore Reykjavík, dramatic landscapes, and ...
10/14/2026

Take your love of stories to Iceland in Spring 2027 with Stevenson English! Explore Reykjavík, dramatic landscapes, and the folklore that connects them. Discover how Iceland’s storytelling traditions shape its culture and tourism, then create a final project inspired by what you read, study, and experience.

ENG 205-ON2: Icelandic Storytelling: Tuesday & Thursday, 11:00 AM–12:15 PM, with reduced weekly meetings throughout the semester. Professor Meagan Nyland

Spring break travel: March 12–19
Estimated travel cost: $5,440.80

Today we had our annual English Welcome gathering where we warmly greet our Majors and Minors on their return or arrival...
09/03/2026

Today we had our annual English Welcome gathering where we warmly greet our Majors and Minors on their return or arrival to campus. There's gifts, snacks, and good conversation. This year, the gift was the chance to adopt a mystery book. Students selected books based on nothing but the first few lines, and each book came with annotation materials and a tiny turtle reading companion. While the Thunderstorm kept us inside, we still had a great time!

It has become a tradition in the English Department to send our graduating seniors off with personalized goodbyes. Ones ...
05/19/2026

It has become a tradition in the English Department to send our graduating seniors off with personalized goodbyes. Ones that help others understand what it has been like working with them throughout their time here at Stevenson. Additionally, we like to leave them with a little creative mustang. These mustangs represent the core traits of what it means to be an English Major, and the ways our seniors most shined during their time at Stevenson.

Join us as we share our memories and hopes with our graduating seniors.

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