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Greetings from Chair

Welcome to the English Program's Website! Feel free to roam about our website. We hope this website will serve the needs of both current and prospective students of English at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. If you have any questions, please contact us at english@utpb.edu. Sincerely yours, Dr. Sophia Andres Chair of Literature and Languages Professor of English and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in Humanities

English Program Mission: Literature and Culture

Our mission is to provide students with a knowledge of British and American literature written by canonical and non-canonical writers with special attention to poetry, fiction, and drama, often with an emphasis on the interdisciplinary study of literature and on the structure and complexity of the English language. Through the teaching of literary works of the past and present, the department provides students with opportunities to relate cultural, historical, aesthetic, social and psychological issues of literary works to their own psychological, sociopolitical and cultural conditions today. In the process, students also learn the importance of respecting other people's perspectives in order to achieve social and global harmony.