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We are back! The 2022-2023 academic year was a year of growth and renewal for the WIU Department of English. Most of…

William “Bill” Thompson, Reference Librarian and Professor of English, retired from Western this spring. The Department gathered at the Old Bailey House…

Angeline Boulley, author of Firekeeper’s Daughter, the breakout, bestselling young adult novel, came to campus this spring as a Lola Austin Case…

Originally constructed in 1938 as the university’s lab school, Simpkins Hall is festooned with symbols appropriate to its original—and continuing— purpose, education.…

Award Winning Students Each spring, the English Department awards $20,000 in scholarships and fellowships for our graduate and undergraduate students. We are pleased…

This has been an incredible year of perseverance, persistence, and resilience for the Department of English. Our students, faculty, and staff have…

WIU Graduate and West Prairie English Teacher Connor Sullivan (back row, far left) and his students with their new books courtesy of…

Award Winning Students Each spring, the English Department awards $20,000 in scholarships and fellowships for our graduate and undergraduate students. We are pleased…

Abigail Gindlesberger was named the Department of English’s Scholar of the Year for 2020-2021. Abigail is a full-time student on the Macomb…