The greatest strengths of the Department of English at SUNY Fredonia are our faculty and our diverse course offerings. As scholar-teachers, we pride ourselves on our ability to combine exciting classroom learning experiences with challenging research agendas. In teaching, all faculty contribute to our world literature core, as well as our rich selection of author and period courses, and courses in criticism, pedagogy, creative writing, film, and cultural studies.
I'm consistently amazed by how people who teach so much and so well, also publish interesting books and articles, attend conferences regularly in their fields, give talks on campus, and stay informed of and contribute to the most recent scholarship in pedagogy.
Our faculty also support numerous interdisciplinary programs on campus, such as African American Studies, American Studies, American Indian Studies, Film Studies, the Honors Program, Multiethnic Studies, and Women's Studies. We train future teachers through our initial and advanced certification programs. And we guide future writers as well, through our workshops taught by prize-winning poets and fiction writers producing some of the most compelling work being written in the United States today.
Faculty in the Department of English also work closely with students, supervising honors theses and other capstone research projects, and advising student groups such as the Writers' Ring and Sigma Tau Delta--our English Honor Society--as well as campus student groups including the Black Student Union and Hillel/Jewish Student Union.
The Department of English at SUNY Fredonia is an exciting place to teach and to learn.
--Adrienne McCormick,
Chair, Department of English