The Department of English and the College of Arts & Letters are committed to a diverse and inclusive campus and society. The Department of English at Michigan State University champions teaching practices that acknowledge difference and advance equal access to education. Through the study of literature and film, our curriculum inspires discussions about race, ethnicity, gender, class, sex, sexuality, ability, and religion. Our teaching, scholarship, and service are explicitly committed to advancing equity and justice and questioning established power structures. We foster curiosity through the study of literature and film and through creative production. We endorse the principle of education for institutional change, aimed at ending exclusionary practices and creating a more equitable academic environment.
As a graduate program, the Department of English at Michigan State University supports a variety of inter/transdisciplinary projects that responds to the nature of ethnic studies work. Below are graduate programs and certificates available to students who are interested in doing work across the disciplines for their graduate studies. These departments also offer graduate students with resources to conduct their research, including travel grants, foreign language fellowships, research fellowships, and writing fellowships. Click the links below for more information:
- Culture of Care in the College of Arts & Letters
- Dean Christopher Long on “Inclusion as Institutional Habit”
- Critical Diversity in a Digital Age Initiative
- Chicano/Latino Studies
- African and African American Studies
- American Indian and Indigenous Studies
- Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities
- Asian Pacific American Studies
- Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
- Center for Gender in a Global Context
- Womxn of Color Initiative (WOCI)