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English department


Academics

Professor Fondse and a student

Overview of the department

Check out the 13 academic programs the English department offers, including:

Learn more about internship options available to English majors.

Discover what kind of careers you can pursue with a degree in English.

 


News and Events

Attention writers!

The next session of Calvin Writers Read will be held on Thursday, Nov. 19, from 3:30 to 5:00 in the Bunker Interpretive Center. English majors and minors are invited to read five minutes of good writing in any genre. Stop by the department to put your name on the list.

Attention writers (again)!

The Conference on Christianity and Literature is hosting its annual student writing contest for poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Find out more.

See also the contest sponsored by the Center for the Study of C.S. Lewis & Friends.

Behind the Dunes

Prof. Don Hettinga has a show of photographs hanging at the Wealthy Street Bakery through December 7.The prints are taken from work he did while Artist-in-Residence at the Glen Arbor Art Association during May, 2009. The show is also available on the web.


Directions to English dept.


Books to Read

The Thin Place

The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis. A wild and wonderful novel that gives voice to creation, that depicts untamed, unsentimental grace, and that portrays church as a place where sinners encounter salvation through word and sacrament despite themselves. ~Susan Felch