Department of English
UCF’s Department of English brings together scholars committed to the study of language, literature, and writing. Our graduates are prepared for a variety of professional and educational endeavors, including careers in law, editing and publishing, teaching, corporate and not-for-profit management, consulting, information technology, and graduate study in English and other disciplines. Students of English learn to read accurately, write clearly, and think analytically in the department’s undergraduate and graduate programs.

Faculty Bookshelf

Mel Stanfill

Stanfill, Mel. 2026. Professor Superstar: Fandom and Antifandom of Academia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 

Christian Beck

Saying the Unsayable: Essays and Meditations on the Ineffability of Aesthetic Experiences. With John Venecek. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2026.

Mel Stanfill

Kies, Bridget and Mel Stanfill. (2025). Teaching AI in Film and Media Studies. London: Routledge. 

Anastasia Salter

Salter, Anastasia. Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope? University of Chicago Press (In Production, October 2025).

Barry Jason Mauer

Lewandowsky, Stephan, et al. The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars’ Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding. 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15510834

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