Allegheny English students put theory into practice
We’ll help you recognize the ideas and perspectives that shape your own and earlier times. By cultivating a sensitivity to and healthy skepticism about the subtlety and power of language, you’ll become educated in the fullest sense.
Our English students expand their skills through experiential learning, creative research, internships, study away, and more.
Experiential Learning
As an English student at Allegheny, your nose won’t be stuck in your books. You’ll have the opportunity to take the skills you learn in the classroom and put them into action.
Our students broaden and refine their abilities through multiple experiential learning opportunities, including:
- The Campus, Allegheny’s weekly student newspaper
- Allegheny Review, a nationally-known undergraduate literary magazine
- Overkill, an Allegheny-specific literary magazine
- Writing Fellows: trained peer consultants in the Maytum Center for Student Success
- Student readings and national conferences: share your work with our learning community and beyond
Single Voice Reading Series
The Single Voice Reading Series provides students with an opportunity to hear and meet nationally known writers. Readers have included John Updike, Carolyn Forché, Tobias Wolff, Jane Hirshfield, W.D. Snodgrass, Richard Blanco, Robert Olen Butler, Henri Cole, Edward Hirsch, Afaa Michael Weaver, Tim O’Brien, and Mark Doty.
Student-Faculty Collaboration
Many English majors carry out independent humanities research or collaborative research with faculty in addition to the Senior Comp.
Allegheny’s Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities provides funding for student research during the summer and for travel to regional and national conferences throughout the year.
Funding for Opportunities
The Dusty Elias Kirk and William Caroselli Fund offers English majors support for academic conference attendance, professional presentations, summer writing workshops, senior project research, and materials.
Recent Senior Comps
The Senior Comp is the culmination of four years of experience, imagination, and study. It is the moment when you demonstrate what you’ve learned by teaching us something new.
This is a Cemetery: Poems
The Faerie Plague: An Environmental Faerie Tale About Chytrid iomycosis
Salome as a Feminist Anti hero in Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam
Bruised Fruit: Poems
Zephyr: Fiction
In Pursuit of Perfection: Essays
Recent Internships
Smith Brothers Advertising, Pittsburgh
Modern Language Association
Marketing, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northeast Ohio
Crawford County READ Program
Service Learning
Meadville Tribune
Journalism
The Allegheny Review, which was first published in 1983, was America’s first nationwide literary magazine dedicated exclusively to undergraduate works of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction. Published annually, the periodical showcases some of the best literature the nation’s undergraduates have to offer.
