Department of English
207 Lind Hall
207 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-625-3363

College of Liberal Arts Voices from the Gaps
1954 Faculty

1954 English faculty

"I wrote a poem about hockey and took it to a writers' club meeting at Professor [George] Hage's house and the poet James Wright said something encouraging about it and my face burned with pleasure. I can still picture it in my mind. . . ."

Garrison Keillor, BA 1966

Community Partners

Higher education has a public responsibility to reinvigorate democratic life. The Department of English collaborates with a wide range of Twin Cities organizations to build social capital through literacy, education, public work, and event programs.

Service Learning

The Department of English supports an engaged, civic-oriented curriculum. With the assistance of the Career and Community Learning Center, selected English courses teach students the critical skills of reading and writing in the context of community involvement by incorporating community and service-learning components. Students may teach English to new immigrants, assist high school students with finding community resources, or tutor elementary-school children. If your organization is interested in working with service learners, contact the University of Minnesota Career and Community Learning Center. Some of the local community-based education projects and organizations we work with are:

Events

The Department of English continues to work with many arts organizations in the Twin Cities to co-sponsor public literary events. In the past, we have worked with Asian American Renaissance, Coffee House Press, Graywolf Press, the Guthrie Theater, Hamline University, the Loft Literary Center, Milkweed Editions, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minnesota Historical Society Press, and SASE/Intermedia Arts, among others.

Internships

The Department of English is honored to have a continuing internship program for undergraduate students with one of the foremost university publishers in the United States, University of Minnesota Press. More informally, our English majors have received internships at most of the major independent book publishers in the Twin Cities, along with internships at book arts organizations, newsweeklies and magazines, and non-profit organizations.