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Highlights
Honors Literature Program
Ten upper-division English electives, a seminar and a thesis.
Internships
Opportunities in advertising, public relations, publishing and private school teaching. Law-related opportunities in judicial chambers, governmental agencies and law offices.
Placement
Excellent job placement. Graduate programs pursued at prestigious institutions, including Columbia, Notre Dame and Princeton.
Program Description
Literacy implies more than the ability to read and write; it means being at home with language and therefore able to enter into critical dialogue about literary ideas and texts. Courses in the Department of English introduce students to a wide variety of literature written by men and women, past and present. An English major trains students to read accurately and imaginatively, to write clearly and forcefully, and to enjoy the potential for creative play afforded by rich and complex language.
By design, the major in English is one of the most flexible majors at Loyola College. Many students who major in English go on to teach or attend graduate school. But many more employ their analytical and expressive skills to embark on careers in law, public relations, commerce, banking, editing, journalism, public service and business. Because of its flexibility, the major can be tailored to the needs and career interests of the individual student. Moreover, the Department encourages students to pursue a wide variety of electives and to declare minors in related fields.
Those who complete the Honors Seminar may elect to write an Honors Thesis under the direction of a faculty advisor. The thesis enables graduating seniors to refine and enrich writing and research skills by pursuing an extensive scholarly project. Writing a thesis better prepares each student for graduate or professional school. It also furnishes an opportunity to work closely with a single professor. In addition, each student who successfully completes and defends a thesis receives an extra distinction--an award of Honors--on his or her transcript.
Curriculum
All students begin their work with a course in poetry and short fiction and one in English or American literature. Courses at the 100 level stress critical approaches to literature, analytic reading and thinking and precise writing. Courses at the 200 level focus on major writers (Shakespeare, British Literature, American Literature). An English major’s program is formulated individually by the student with the help of a faculty advisor. English literature majors take 10 upper-division literature courses. Courses at the 300-level offer opportunities for extensive study of individual writers, kinds of literature, and also film (Victorian age, modern British and American fiction, Post-Colonial literature, Milton and the Renaissance, narrative cinema). Representing the English department are 14 full-time professors, each of whom has a doctorate. Recent faculty publications have explored Shakespeare’s classical sources, Stanley Elkin, the tattoo in literature and culture, contemporary literary theory, Don DeLillo, and the Chaucerian apocrypha.
Honors Seminar
The English Department offers extraordinary opportunities and challenges through its Honors Option for the most accomplished seniors. Students with the highest grade point averages are invited to enroll in the Honors Seminar, which is restricted to 15 highly motivated students. The seminar provides an intense and rewarding educational experience--one especially helpful for those planning to attend graduate or professional school. Recent seminars have explored such topics as the Nineteenth-Century Novels into Film; the American Renaissance: and How to Read the World; First Signifiers, for which students read literature of the Pacific Rim.
Internships
The Department offers internships with many corporations and service agencies. These internships enable students to work in an environment that resembles that of the career the student is pursuing. Following are some examples of internships students have undertaken in the past decade:
- Journalism
- The Baltimore Sun
- ABC-TV (New York)
- WBAL-TV (Baltimore)
- WCAV-TV (Philadelphia)
- WJZ-TV (Baltimore)
- Publishing
- Baltimore Magazine
- International Living Magazine
- Where Baltimore Magazine
- Williams and Wilkins
- Teaching
- The Bryn Mawr School
- Institute of Notre Dame
- Loyola Blakefield
- Business and Philanthropy
- Martin Marietta Laboratories
- Miles and Stockbridge
- National Aquarium in Baltimore
- W.B. Doner & Co. Advertising
- Baltimore Harbor Project
- Legal and Court Systems
- Attorney General's Office, State of Maryland
- Baltimore City Council
- Circuit Court for Baltimore County
- Fifth Judicial Court, State of Maryland
- Immigration and Naturalization Service, U.S. Department of Justice
- Maryland House of Delegates
- United States Senate
Other Activities
The Loyola College English Department sponsors a chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the National English Honor Society, as well as our own Loyola College Literary Society (LoCoLitSo). Recent Sigma Tau Delta and LoCoLitSo events have included a Christmas feast (with a literary theme and entertainment); the Bookworms literacy initiative at nearby St. Mary's elementary school; student/faculty Scrabble nights; a career night, at which recent English alumnae spoke about their professions; Croquet on the lawn. English majors have also participated in a special Aperio seminar to eidt and annotate Shakespeare's Measure for Measure for publication through Loyola's Apprentice House and for college-wide use as the Loyola Humanities Symposium text. Other students have created short films for presentation at the annual Loyola Student Film Festival.
Faculty
Carol Nevin Abromaitis
Professor
Ph.D., University of Maryland
Areas of Interest: restoration and 18th century English literature and fantasy literature
Jean Lee Cole
Associate Professor
B.A., Carleton College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas (Austin)
Areas of Interest: American literature, Immigrant literature and Minority American literature
Bryan Crockett
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Areas of Interest: English Renaissance literature and culture and modern drama
David C. Dougherty
Professor Ph.D., Miami University (Ohio)
Areas of Interest: 20th century British and American fiction and poetry
June Ellis
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Areas of Interest: Post-Colonial literature and Pacific Rim literature
Kathleen Forni
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Areas of Interest: Medieval literature and apocryphal writings
Erin Goss
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Emory University
Areas of Interest: Romanticism, 19th century literature
Paul Lukacs
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Areas of Interest: American literature and literary criticism
Phillip McCaffrey
Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Areas of Interest: Medieval literature, 17th century English poetry, literature and psychology
Gayla McGlamery
Department Chair, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Emory University
Areas of Interest: Victorian literature and culture and the novel
Brian Norman
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Nicholas Miller
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Areas of Interest: Irish literature and fiction and film
Robert S. Miola
Professor
Ph.D., University of Rochester
Areas of Interest: Shakespeare, Renaissance drama and poetry and classical backgrounds of English literature
Mark Osteen
Professor
Ph.D., Emory University
Areas of Interest: 20th century British and American literature
Thomas E. Scheye
Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Areas of Interest: Renaissance literature, Shakespeare and Milton
Placement
Because of its scope and flexibility, the English program can prepare its majors for a variety of careers, including teaching, journalism, business, library science and technical writing. English is also an excellent preparation for law school. One alumnus had a novel on The New York Times bestseller list. In addition, some of our recent graduates have gone on to advanced study at Pembroke College and St. Hilda’s at Oxford, to graduate schools including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, University of Maryland and University of North Carolina, and to law school at Georgetown, Yale, Penn, Tulane, University of Maryland, Catholic University of America and the University of Baltimore.
Course Sequence
1st year
Understanding Literature
Effective Writing
English 200 level course
Core courses (5)
General electives (2)
2nd year
Upper-level English electives (2)
Core courses (6)
General electives (2)
3rd year
Upper-level English electives (4)
Core courses (2)
General electives (4)
4th year
Upper-level English electives (4)
Core course (2)
General electives (4)
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