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From Beowulf to the Digital Age

Our majors can focus their coursework on classes that correspond to their own growing intellectual interests. Here are just a few of the fields of study available to a Penn English major:

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20th/21st Centuries

Literary Theory and Cultural Studies

Literature, Journalism and Print Culture

Creative Writing

Cinema and Media Studies

18th/19th-Centuries

Early Literature to 1660

Africana Literatures and Culture - Africana Studies

Historical

Colonial and Postcolonial

Poetry and Poetics

American Literature and Culture

Study in London

Beyond the Classroom

34th Street Magazine
Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships
English Undergraduate Advisory Board
Front Row Theatre Company

Kelly Writers House
PennSound
The Philomathean Society
Sigma Tau Delta

Slought Foundation
The Underground Shakespeare Company
The Winter Reading Project
The Moviegoer

Teaching Awards
Faculty and graduate students recognized for excellence in teaching.
Undergraduate Prizes
Find out more about Undergraduate Prizes in the English Department