English Department
Welcome to the Department of English at UTEP! Our department is a vibrant and diverse community comprised of more than thirty full-time faculty, dozens of graduate students and lecturers, and four staff members. Our faculty are recognized nationally and internationally for their cutting-edge research in literature, rhetoric and writing studies, education, and cultural studies. Our department is one of the most productive at UTEP in terms of research, and our faculty have won many of the most prestigious awards in their fields, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Mellon Foundation, and many others. We offer a number of programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels: bachelor’s programs in Literature and English Education; master’s programs in Literature, Rhetoric and Writing Studies, and English Education; and a PhD program in Rhetoric and Composition. In addition to being active researchers, our faculty are talented instructors who have won multiple teaching awards and whose w have gone on to highly successful careers in a wide range of fields. I encourage you to browse our courses and programs and take advantage of what our department has to offer.
Joe Ortiz
Chair, Department of English
NEWS
Recent Publications
Dr. Soyeon Lee published an article, "User Narratives of Transnational Multilingual Small Business Entrepreneurs in Disaster Relief Programs," Technical Communication, 71(1), February 2024.
Dr. Soyeon Lee, Eunjeong Lee, and Stephie Minjung Kang co-authored an article, "Coalition Building against Anti-Asian Racism: Interweaving Stories of Transnational Asian/American Feminist Survivance." Peitho. 26(1). Fall 2023.
Dr. Mimi Gladstein published an article, “Soldiering with Steinbeck,” in The Steinbeck Review, vol. 20, no. 2, 2023, pp. 276–81.
Raj K. Baral and Mahesh Paudel coauthored an article “Misogynist baggage in Nepali fairy tales," Cogent Arts and Humanities 11(1),
Raj K. Baral, Purna Chandra Bhusal, and Shankar Paudel (2024) coauthored an article, "Climate crisis literacy through media: a positive discourse analysis of selected Nepali media content," Cogent Arts & Humanities, 11:1.
Purna Chandra Bhusal published an article, “Food as a Healing Space for a Diasporic Identity in Grace M. Cho’s Tastes Like War: A Memoir,” in SCHOLARS: Journal of Arts & Humanities, vol. 6, no. 1, 2024, pp. 53–65.
Awards & Appointments
Dr. Elias Adanu received a Career Enhancement Award for Summer 2024 from the College of Liberal Arts.
Jose Manuel Flores Fuentes was selected as one of eleven recipients of the 2024 Scholars for the Dream Travel Awards from the Conferendce on College Composition & Communication (CCCC).