Northwestern’s English BA nurtures discerning readers and innovative writers who grasp literature’s power to mirror, contest, and reshape society. Seminars span medieval epics to Afrofuturist comics, while writing workshops sharpen craft in fiction, poetry, and hybrid genres. Partnerships with Chicago’s literary scene—poetry slams, independent presses, and theater companies—immerse students in a living laboratory of storytelling. Digital-humanities labs empower majors to mine archival texts with sentiment analysis or build interactive editions of Shakespeare. Graduates enter publishing, law, education, game narrative design, and MFA programs armed with argumentation prowess and narrative vision.
Digitally annotate First Folio passages with modern performance footage links
Compose a novella employing nonlinear hypertext structure for web publication
Analyze eco-poetic imagery frequency in contemporary climate fiction novels
Create a GIS story map of literary cafés influencing the Beat Generation
Develop a podcast unpacking colonial tropes in Victorian adventure narratives
Use stylometry to attribute disputed poems to Emily Dickinson’s corpus
Stage a site-specific adaptation of Macbeth in Chicago’s abandoned warehouses
Build a machine-learning model predicting bestseller themes over decades
Curate an online archive of bilingual slam poetry from Chicago youth festivals
Write a critical essay on disability representation in modern YA fantasy
Design an interactive timeline of censorship cases in U.S. literature
Produce a zine series pairing personal essays with mixtapes of themed playlists
Examine narrative agency in choice-based indie video games versus novels
Translate and illustrate Old English riddles for a graphic anthology
Conduct sentiment analysis on public-domain love letters across centuries
Create a community writing workshop syllabus for incarcerated writers
Research the economics of e-book royalties for mid-list authors
Master storytelling and critical thought with the versatile English major at Northwestern.
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