English at UTEP

English at UTEP The UTEP Department of English is committed to innovative teaching, scholarship, and service.

The English Department is a large and flourishing department, contributing in essential ways to students' personal growth, knowledge, and critical thinking abilities. 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, aesthetics, and cultures; composition, professional writing, and rhetoric in digital formats; and teacher preparation in a bicultural environment.

On Friday we celebrated Dr. Mimi Gladstein, who is retiring from UTEP after teaching in the English Department for 57 ye...
05/23/2026

On Friday we celebrated Dr. Mimi Gladstein, who is retiring from UTEP after teaching in the English Department for 57 years. Thank you for all that you have done, Mimi!

Dr. Brianna Anderson recently led two comics workshops as part of the Desert Discovery Camps hosted by the Frontera Land...
05/13/2026

Dr. Brianna Anderson recently led two comics workshops as part of the Desert Discovery Camps hosted by the Frontera Land Alliance. Students ages 11–14 explored how comics can be a powerful tool for environmental education and created their own stories about nature and conservation.

She’ll be back for two more workshops during the June camps—registration is free and open now: https://www.fronteralandalliance.org/

Congratulations to Robert Delgadillo who successfully defended his MAT practicum, “Resisting Censorship in Southwestern ...
05/11/2026

Congratulations to Robert Delgadillo who successfully defended his MAT practicum, “Resisting Censorship in Southwestern Suburbia." His committee included Dr. Brad Jacobson (director), Dr. Jonna Perrillo, and Dr. Marion Rohrleitner. Congratulations, Robert!

Congratulations to Grisel Harrison, who successfully defended her extended seminar paper, "Returning History in a Circle...
05/07/2026

Congratulations to Grisel Harrison, who successfully defended her extended seminar paper, "Returning History in a Circle: Violence, Obeah, and the New Black Gothic in Marlon James' The Book of Night Women." Her paper was directed by Dr. Marion Rohrleitner, and Dr. Robert Gunn and Dr. Brandon Render (History) were readers. Well done, Grisel!

This semester's Milton class took a field trip to the UTEP Theatre to see a wonderful production of Virginia Woolf's Orl...
04/22/2026

This semester's Milton class took a field trip to the UTEP Theatre to see a wonderful production of Virginia Woolf's Orlando.

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