Welcome to the Department of English at UTEP.

The Department of English is committed to innovative teaching, scholarship, and service that promote cultural awareness, diversity, and ethical responsibility through the study of literature, language, and rhetoric. As the largest department on the UTEP campus, English serves as an extraordinary center of discovery, creativity, and knowledge.  The English Department’s graduates go on to successful careers in secondary and higher education, research, professional writing and editing, publishing, business, and law.

As part of a university situated on the U.S./Mexico border, the department's undergraduate and graduate programs offer unique opportunities for studying diverse literatures and cultures; composition, professional writing, and rhetoric in digital formats; and teacher preparation in a bicultural environment. 

With over three hundred majors, and nearly one hundred faculty members, lecturers, and graduate student instructors, the department offers a well-developed, diverse, and active community within the university and also reaches out to the larger El Paso community through public lectures, readings, and other events. 

We would love to share more of what we’re doing with you. Please click on any of the links to the right to learn more about the department, our undergraduate and graduate programs, and upcoming special events.

David Ruiter, Chair
Dorrance D. Roderick Professor