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 English
Professor
Michael Adams, Chair
Professors Mary Jane Androne,
Richard Androne, Cacicedo,
and Woodward
Associate Professor Adlestein
Lecturers Clark, Frye, Greenwood,
Hummel, Strauss, Trayes,
and Wagner
Albright’s department of English is one of
the largest and most diverse departments in the College. In addition
to a full, 12-course concentration in English language and literature,
the department also offers a 12-course English-Theatre option within
that concentration and a 10-course major in combination with Albright’s
elementary and secondary education programs. The department provides
a seven-course combined concentration program that can be combined
with any other Albright concentration, and a seven-course Communications
combined concentration that is especially strong
in journalism offerings.
The department of English teaches a wide variety
of literature and composition courses in support of the College’s
general studies programs, and its staff provides courses for Albright’s
American civilization concentration, Women’s Studies Program,
and, in conjunction with the art department, film studies. Classroom
instruction in creative writing is supplemented by opportunities
to edit and write for AGON, Albright College’s literary magazine.
The English honorary society Sigma Tau Delta organizes literary
and social events throughout the academic year.
The department’s core offerings in literature
include surveys of all periods of English and American literature,
selected readings in World and non-Western literature, and more
intensive study of major writers, periods, genres, and critical
theories. The objectives of the various English literature concentrations
are to train majors in the techniques of literary analysis, to offer
a broad background in the central historical and formal developments
of English and American literature, to provide a limited range of
options for the study of World literature, to afford opportunities
for more advanced study of selected authors and topics, and to introduce
the study of critical theory. Also important is instruction in the
clear and effective expression of thought through written language,
and attention is given in selected courses to oral presentation.
In addition to admission into some of the finest
Ph.D. programs in literature, recent graduates with Albright College
degrees in English have gone on to careers in law, business, publishing,
teaching, library science, public relations, academic administration,
theatre, film, broadcasting, journalism, and a variety of other
fields.
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